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BY CHASE COOK
STAFF WRITER
With an estimated 20,000 people set
to descend on Prince George’s County’s
newest retail attraction — Tanger Outlets
at National Harbor — for its grand opening Friday, residents should expect delays
despite efforts to mitigate trafﬁc.
Tanger Outlets will open at 9 a.m. Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10
a.m.
Mall representatives are anticipating
a large turnout of guests and customers,
which will likely ﬁll up the center’s 4,000plus available parking spaces and ancillary
parking areas, said Christi Wallace, the center’s general manager.
The mall is opening with about 99 percent of its high-end retail stores such as
Calvin Klein and Coach leased, Wallace
said. “We generate a lot of excitement, so
we know that is going to bring a lot of trafﬁc,” Wallace said.
Wallace said Tanger has been working
with Gameday Parking Management and
Prince George’s County Police Department
to prepare for Friday’s parking and trafﬁc
situation.
County police will be directing cars
while county Department of Public Works
and Transportation members will be monitoring trafﬁc signals and will post signs advising through trafﬁc to avoid Oxon Hill
Road, said DPWT spokeswoman Carol
Terry.
Joyce Thorpe of Fort Washington said
Tanger’s location on Oxon Hill Road will
create disastrous trafﬁc even with management efforts. Oxon Hill Road goes from
three lanes in both direction to two lanes,
one in each direction, and that’s going to
cause problems, she said.
“Trafﬁc is going to be horrendous,”
Thorpe said. “It is not a good location to attract that many people.”
County Executive Rushern L. Baker III
(D) said that while trafﬁc has been a concern for the county, he is pleased to know
that people from Virginia, D.C. and other
parts of Maryland will be coming to Prince
George’s County for high-end retail, something the county has desired for some time.
“We are going to have thousands of
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based Raptor Technologies, the system requires
visitors to slide their photo identiﬁcation through
a digital reader, which will ﬂag individuals listed
on state sex offender registry lists and also keeps a
log of all visitors.
“We are already looking into it, and I expect
we will have something very similar to it, and get
it installed soon,” Maxwell said during a Nov. 14
meeting with The Gazette’s editorial board.
Rex Barrett, acting security director for PGCPS,
said the system is currently reviewing ID management systems and is hoping to have one implemented throughout the school system by January.
Bob Yatsuk, Anne Arundel supervisor of school
security, said the Raptor security system placed in
all 125 Anne Arundel County public schools has
A stretch of Annapolis Road in Bowie is
constantly jammed with trafﬁc — and as ofﬁcials again urge the State Highway Administration to fund an expansion, the long wait
has them frustrated.
“We will argue for our share and our priorities,” said Bowie Mayor G. Frederick Robinson.
For at least a decade, Bowie ofﬁcials
have sought funding from the state to expand the state road, also known as Md. 450,
from Stonybrook Drive to Crain Highway
from a two-lane road into a four-lane road,
with two lanes traveling in each direction.
The request has sat on Prince George’s
County’s project priority list but has not
received the state funding needed for construction, Robinson said. Since the road is
owned by the state, the state is responsible
for handling expansion.
The roadway’s trafﬁc is expected to double by 2030 from the current 26,700 vehicles
daily to 58,850 vehicles daily, said Joseph
Meinert, Bowie’s Department of Planning
director.
The SHA, which would handle the project
if funded, receives county project priorities
for state highways each year, and there are a
lot of factors when the state selects different
projects from different counties, said David
Buck, SHA spokesman. The Annapolis Road
project would cost up to $70 million for funding through construction, Buck said.
“Obviously the need is going to outweigh
the funding available,” Buck said. “It is going to depend on what the elected [ofﬁcials]
send to us. But then again, there is no guarantee.”
Other projects ahead of Bowie have been
on the priority list for several years and they
recently received funding from the Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013,
said Aubrey Thagard, the county executive’s
assistant deputy chief administrative ofﬁcer.
However, deliberations on the project list for
ﬁscal 2014 and ﬁscal 2015 have not begun
yet, and county priorities will be determined
based on need, cost and economic development among other things, Thagard said.
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Kevin Maxwell, CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools, said he is pursuing a new security system for county
facilities that would check names against sex offender registries and other lists.
County schools’ CEO says new
security features coming in future
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System looking at ID swipe to ﬂag
visitors on sex offender list
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STAFF WRITER
Hoping to further bolster school safety and
safeguard against potential tragedies such as
the Newtown, Conn., shooting, Prince George’s
County school ofﬁcials are adding security enhancements such as ID scanner systems and high
fencing.
Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell said a system that
scanned visitors’ licenses and checked names
against sex offender registries and other lists was
in use when he was superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Produced by Houston-
Bowie Advisory Board calls for denial of Wal-Mart relocation, expansion
People have made it clear
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The Bowie Advisory Board sided
with residents against Wal-Mart, recommending the City Council deny the
store’s application to build a new Supercenter at Mill Branch Crossing.
“People were concerned about the
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health of the community,” said Terry
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On Tuesday, Wal-Mart presented
its case to move from its current location in Bowie, 3300 Crain Highway, and
build a new about 186,000 square-foot
Supercenter location across the street
at Mill Branch Crossing. The new WalMart would be state of the art, have a
unique design and bring in about 80
more jobs than the current store already has, which employs about 300
associates, according to Wal-Mart’s
presentation.
Residents attended the meeting
and gave their concerns before the
board voted. Resident Robin Williams
said the store would chase out other
retail outlets and make the city unattractive for more high-end retail stores
like Nordstrom.
“We deserve more as Bowie residents than a Wal-Mart Supercenter,”
Williams said during her comments to
the board.
Supporters said a new Wal-Mart
would bring in more retail for the city
and meet one-stop shopping needs.
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Resident Chris Lawson said the
store would be a positive inﬂuence on
the city and its business space. WalMart draws customers and that draws
more retail, he said. Lawson also recommended the old Wal-Mart at Crain
Highway be used as a Bowie recreation
center because he said the city has outgrown the current location.
“It is a positive,” Lawson said. “It
gives [Bowie] an opportunity to attract
high level of retail.”
Rogers made a motion to deny the
application, and a second was received,
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followed by the board voting 6 yes votes
to 1 abstention against the application.
Wal-Mart isn’t out of the race yet as
the Bowie City Council meets Monday
and will make a decision on whether
Wal-Mart should be denied by the
Prince George’s County government.
The city plays an advisory role in this
process, with Wal-Mart’s request for the
store ultimately decided by the county,
said Joseph Meinert, Bowie Department of Planning director. But that ap-
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NOV. 21
Learn About Turkeys, 2 to 3 p.m., Old Maryland
Farm, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro.
Learn about the history of this unique bird and its
unique features. Reservations required. Cost: resident, $2; non-resident, $3. Contact 301-218-6770;
TTY 301-699-2544.
Burtonsville’s
Church of the
Resurrection
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Belgium’s brightest with concert
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Surrattsville football teams play for region titles
and a berth in the state semifinals this weekend.
Check online for coverage of the games.
Canned Food Drive and Self Expression Showcase, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Glassmanor Community Center,
1101 Marcy Ave., Oxon Hill. Support our youth as
they express themselves through dance, song and
spoken word. Admission is the donation of one nonperishable canned good item per person. Contact
301-567-6033; TTY 301-203-6030.
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NOV. 23
Oxon Hill Boys and Girls Club Coat Drive, 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., Oxon Hill Staff Development Center, 7711
Livingston Road, Oxon Hill. Join the Oxon Hill Boys
and Girls Club as we host our ﬁrst coat drive. We will
begin issuing new and gently used coats to Prince
George’s County residents in need. Contact 202-4093139 or erika.ballermom@gmail.com.
Cub Scout Badge Workshop, 10 a.m. to noon,
Watkins Nature Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Join a naturalist and work on several
different topics related to the requirements for the
naturalist badge achievement. Activities may include
indoor and outdoor components, please dress accordingly. Reservations required. Cost: resident, $4;
non-resident, $5. Contact 301-218-6702; TTY 301699-2544.
Knights and Princesses Party, noon to 3 p.m.,
Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston
Road, Fort Washington. Event will feature royal
games, arts and crafts, food and fun. Pre-registration
required. Cost: resident, $5; $2 with canned goods.
Contact 301-203-6040; TTY 301-203-6030.
H.E.A.L. Workshop: Take Charge of Your Health,
4:30 to 6 p.m., Capitol Free Mission, 8201 Cryden
Way, Forestville. An eight-session lifestyle workshop
for those who want to improve their health by dealing with chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes,
heart failure, stress, depression and pain. To register,
call 301-494-5550 or visit www.capitolcitymission.
org. Limited seating. Contact 301-494-5550 or helpdesk@mygospelworkers.org.
Winter Festival of Lights Trot for a Turkey, 6 p.m.,
Watkins Regional Park, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. For more than 30 years visitors to the
annual Winter Festival of Lights have been dazzled
by twinkling light displays as they drove through
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course and see the dazzling displays up close. Your
registration fee will provide a family in need with a
holiday turkey. Cost: $30 per person. Contact 301627-7755; TTY 301-699-2544.
Tennis Clinic at Watkins Tennis Bubble, 7:30 to
9:30 p.m., Watkins Regional Park Tennis Bubble, 301
Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Free tennis
clinic for middle and high school students in Prince
George’s County. Free tennis rackets will be given
to the ﬁrst 10 ﬁrst-time participants; tennis rackets
and balls will be provided to those who need them.
Spectators welcome to watch and bring their own
portable chairs. Contact 301-218-6870; TTY 301-2186768.
Prince George’s Philharmonic presents Madelyn
Wanner, mezzo-soprano, 8 to 10 p.m., Bowie Cen-
ter for the Performing Arts, 15200 Annapolis Road,
Bowie. Single tickets are on sale the night of the concert beginning at 7 p.m., cash or check only. Tickets
can be purchased in advance, by check. Subscriptions available. All seating unreserved. Free parking.
Cost: $20; seniors, $18; age 18 and younger, free
(ticket required). Contact 301-446-3245 or pgphilharmonic@gmail.com.
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Farm Bingo, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Oxon Cove Park/Oxon
Hill Farm, 6411 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Take a
ranger-led walk around Oxon Hill Farm and use your
observation skills to help you ﬁll in a bingo card.
For ages 5 to 12, and accompanying adults. Meet in
the visitor barn. Contact 301-839-1176 or stephanie_marrone@nps.gov.
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Bowie’s job bank has a wealth of teens in need of work
If Bowie residents need help
with any odd jobs around the
house, city ofﬁcials hope they’ll
look ﬁrst at Bowie’s Teen Job
Bank.
The job bank, started more
than 20 years ago to help young
people make some extra money
and stay busy, is a database of
local 13-to-17 year-olds who
register as helping hands for
anything from snow shoveling
to ofﬁce ﬁling, said Karen Katrinic, a family therapist at the
city’s youth and family services
department that manages the
bank.
“We’re like an information
referral. The residents call up
and they’re looking for something to be done, and we tell
them, ‘We don’t know these
people personally, but here are
three names,’” Katrinic said.
“Then we have someone call
the residents and if they say it
went really well, [the teen] gets
a good rating.”
Teens can register ongoing
throughout the year and are
mainly requested for help with
yard work and babysitting, Katrinic said.
About 80 teens are registered at any given time, she
said. The bank gets about 100
work requests a year.
“We have the capacity to
serve many more [residents]. It
would be great if we had more
work for the teens,” she said.
For more information, call
Bowie Youth and Family Services at 301-809-3033.
Grace Brethren announces
director’s list
Several students at Grace
Brethren Christian School in
Clinton made it onto the ﬁrst
quarter director’s list. This list
recognizes students for maintaining a 97 to 100 numerical
average without receiving a
grade below 70 percent.
These ninth through 12th
grade students made the list:
Taylor Custis of Upper Marlboro;
Brian Jackson of Bowie; Jennifer
Frost of Clinton; Sasha Tooph-
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action ﬁgures, dolls, stuffed animals, board games, books, electronic toys, educational toys,
sports balls and gift cards for the
older recipients.
All cooped up
Bowie’s leaf
collection schedule
Bowie’s leaf collection program is running through Dec.
19.
Residents are asked to make
sure leaves are curbside by 7
a.m. on the day pickup will
occur in their neighborhood
and make sure vehicles are not
blocking access to the leaves.
The following neighborhoods will receive leaf-collection visits in the next week:
Nov. 25: Pointer Ridge.
Nov. 26: Amber Meadows,
Peach Preserve, Chapel Forge
and Yorktown.
Nov. 27: Remaining parts of
Yorktown not visited Nov. 26,
Rockledge and Overbrook.
For a full schedule, visit the
city’s website at www.cityofbowie.org.
Bowie Food Pantry moves
near the Kenhill Center
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Chanita Williams and her children, Destiny Williams (right), 7, and Jelanie (left), 5, of Brandywine, visit the chickens at the Old Maryland Farm on
Friday while they wait for a program about Native American harvest crops to begin.
anie of Clinton; Isaiah Thomason
of Washington D.C.; Ciarah Williams of Clinton.
Grace Brethren Christian
School is a private, Christianbased school located in Clinton.
Upper Marlboro election
registration approaching
The Town of Upper Marlboro’s election will take place
on Jan. 6, and residents who
wish to vote can register at the
Town Hall until Dec. 6.
Residents who are already
registered with the Prince
George’s County Board of Elec-
tions with an address in the
town may already vote in the
town election, said Steve Sonnett, Board of Town Commissioners president.
However, if a resident isn’t
registered with the county
board or they are military and
registered out-of-state, they
may still vote in the town by
signing up at the Town Hall,
Sonnett said.
To register to vote in the
town itself residents must provide proof that they live in the
town, which will be conﬁrmed
by the town’s election board,
Sonnett said.
Academy holds toy drive
for Upper Marlboro group
A private school in Hyattsville is holding a toy drive
to support Prince George’s
County youth by collecting
various toys and gift cards.
The New Hope Academy
has been holding a toy drive
since Nov. 18 and will continue
to collect toys until Dec. 6,
said Michelle Morse, academy
spokeswoman.
Collected toys will then be
donated to the My Little Angel
Toy Drive, an organization operated by Upper Marlboro resident
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Sydney Harrison.
Harrison’s toy drive sends
toys to needy Prince George’s
County youth.
“We’re really excited about
participating in the My Little
Angel Toy Drive. At New Hope
Academy, community service is
strongly emphasized and it’s an
important part of our character
education curriculum,” Morse
said.
Anyone who wants to donate can place toys in the academy’s donation box, which will
be located in the building’s
lobby, located at 7009 Varnum
St., Hyattsville, Morse said.
Accepted toys are bicycles,
The Bowie Food Pantry has
changed locations from its old
address on Belair Drive to its
new location near the Kenhill
Center, 2614 Kenhill Drive.
The new location isn’t in
the main Kenhill Center building but located in the blue
building behind the center.
Any Prince George’s
County residents who need
to use the pantry should park
behind the center and enter
the blue building to access the
pantry, according to the organization’s new directions.
The Bowie Food Pantry’s
food services are open to all
county residents who prove
they qualify for the program by
showing identiﬁcation, proof
of income and proof that children are enrolled in school,
according to the pantry’s requirements.
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Customers may
foot bill for gas
pipe upgrades
Clinton pastor joins Mizeur campaign
County ties strong in
2014 governor’s race
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KATE S. ALEXANDER
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Effort to keep outside
money out of campaign
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Attorney General Douglas
F. Gansler asked his Democratic
rivals Nov. 12 to pledge to keep
outside spending out of the race
for governor, but his opponents
are in no hurry to answer.
Gansler asked Lt. Gov.
Anthony G. Brown and Del.
Heather Mizeur (Dist. 20) of
Takoma Park to pledge to keep
spending by unions, special
interests and other groups out
of the race for the Democratic
nomination.
The pledge requires candidates, about whom an outside
advertisement runs, to pay half
the cost of the ad to the charity
of their opponent’s choosing.
Mizeur said Nov. 13 that her
campaign has been so focused
on its efforts, including naming
her running mate, the Rev. Delman Coates, this week that she
has not had time to consider
Gansler’s request.
Brown and his staff are giving it consideration.
“We are reviewing the
pledge, but frankly our campaign is focused on organizing a
grass-roots effort to deliver our
message to voters about our vision for Maryland’s future,”
said campaign manager Justin
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Washington Gas Light Co.
has asked for permission to upgrade its gas pipes and charge
customers upfront for the work.
Maryland law passed this
year allows gas companies to
charge for infrastructure upgrades or improvements before
those are complete and bypass
the typical method of recouping
the money later through a rate
increase.
On Nov. 7, Washington Gas
Light ﬁled a 22-year, $869 million plan with the Maryland
Public Service Commission to
repair or replace 633 miles of
pipe main and 75,200 services.
To pay for the upgrades,
the utility would tack a 29-cent
monthly fee on the average residential heating customer’s bill.
The fee would fund the ﬁrst ﬁve
years and $200 million of the
upgrades and also would pay for
$5.2 million of improvements
made in August and September.
It could increase each year up to
the maximum $2 per month allowed by the new law, according
to the utility’s request.
In its request, the utility
said the new fee would take effect Dec. 7, but the PSC has suspended the fee for 150 days so
the commission can mull it over.
Washington Gas is the third
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The Rev. Delman Coates, the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Heather Mizeur, speaks in Silver Spring
on Nov. 13. Behind him are (from left) Mizeur’s wife, Debra; Heather Mizeur; Coates’ wife, Yolanda Coates, son
Joshua, 7, daughter Leah, 4, and son Nathaniel, 10.
Having never held or run
for ofﬁce, Coates is admittedly
new to politics — but not new
to public service, he said.
“There is a saying that we
say in some faith circles. It
says a shepherd ought to smell
like sheep,” he said.
As a pastor, Coates said,
he has devoted his ministry to
serving people not moving in
establishment circles.
“It’s that connection and
contact with the people that
qualiﬁes me for this opportunity,” he said.
Among African-American
clergy leaders, there is precendent of moving from pastoral
service into political service,
he said.
“Nothing says that you have
to be an elected ofﬁcial for 10,
20, 30 years in order to qualify
for elected ofﬁce,” he said. “I
have a discernible record of
leadership.”
A local example of the dual
role of pastor and legislator
is C. Anthony Muse, a state
senator from Prince George’s
and bishop at Ark of Safety
Christian Church in Upper
Marlboro.
Voters might recognize
Coates, a Fort Washington resident, from the 2012 campaign
for same-sex marriage, when
he appeared in ads supporting
a ballot question to uphold the
legislature’s newly passed law.
Nationally, Coates is
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Schall. “The law in Maryland
clearly prohibits our campaign,
or any other campaign, from
working or coordinating with
an independent expenditure
committee. We will absolutely
abide by the law and run a clean
and transparent campaign.”
Gansler’s communications
director, Bob Wheelock, said
his camp hoped for a more
prompt response.
“We don’t see this as a difﬁcult decision from a ﬁnancial
standpoint or moral standpoint,” Wheelock said. “All it
takes is a yes. Not ‘we’re studying it.’ Not an empty promise.
Not rhetoric about reform. No
ducking. No dodging. Yes or
no. Sign it or not.”
Wheelock said Gansler’s
motives are altruistic.
Among the Democratic
ﬁeld, Gansler has received few
endorsements, so it makes
sense that he would want to
balance the spending scales
without the outside money
Brown’s laundry list of endorsers could drop in the election,
said Todd Eberly, political science professor at St. Mary’s
College.
Gansler and Brown have
similar campaign caches — at
last count, each had about $5
million in the bank.
Wheelock said Gansler has
received endorsements, but
hasn’t announced them.
In the meantime, Brown’s
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Maryland utility to apply to the
PSC for a surcharge since the law
passed in the spring.
In its request, the utility said
the project would create more
than 250 jobs, eliminate gas
leaks and reduce gas emissions.
Del. Charles E. Barkley (DDist. 39) of Germantown, sponsor of the law, said it’s intended
to accelerate infrastructure repairs on miles of aging pipe.
“Ratepayers are eventually
going to pay for this stuff anyway,” Barkley said.
Washington Gas will be required to ﬁle a full rate case after
the ﬁve years, but Barkley said it
cannot double dip and ask for a
rate increase to pay for what the
surcharge covered.
Del. Alfred C. Carr Jr. said
Washington Gas lobbied for the
law, which he opposed, and that
it will increase company proﬁts.
“My understanding is that
Washington Gas has the ability and resources to raise the
money to make the needed upgrades to keep system safe and
reliable using the traditional rate
making process,” said Carr (DDist. 18) of Kensington.
The law also opened the
door for other utilities to seek
similar surcharges, he said.
“My expectation is that
you’ll see electric utilities pushing for a similar law,” he said,
noting that electric utilities already have begun to see the surcharges through other means.
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Kenmoor Middle earns fourth
spot in Science Bowl semiﬁnals
n Clinton school falls
to nine-time champion
BY JAMIE
ANFENSON-COMEAU
STAFF WRITER
Kenmoor Middle School in
Hyattsville, the school with the
most wins in Science Bowl history, will look to add another
championship trophy after
scoring a 265-175 win Tuesday
over Dwight D. Eisenhower
Middle School of Laurel.
“They were two very good
teams,” said Science Bowl host
Dave Zahren. “Eisenhower
acquitted themselves well, especially considering they were
going up against two Science
Bowl veterans.”
The Science Bowl competition, now in its 28th season, is a
televised quiz program pitting
Prince George’s County public
elementary and middle school
teams against each other in
science-related questions.
Kenmoor’s captain, seventh-grader Prosun Das, competed twice for Landover’s
Cora Rice Elementary, and
sixth-grader John Bridgers
competed for Landover’s Highland Park Elementary. Eighthgrader Ifeoma Okeke rounded
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Stephen Decatur Middle School students Daesha Tyler, Dylan Derringer,
and Roderick Williams compete Tuesday in the Science Bowl at the Bonnie
F. Johns Educational Media Center in Landover.
out the team.
Kenmoor has won the Science Bowl championship eight
times in the show’s 28-year history, most recently in 2010.
“It’s something the kids
take pride in, living up to the
legend,” said team sponsor
Cheryl Diallo. “They want to be
part of the tradition.”
Eisenhower earned a
255-155 win against Thomas
Johnson Middle in Lanham.
Eisenhower team was comprised of eighth-graders Jeremy
Mensah, Betelihim Haile and
Lillian Peters.
Kenmoor defeated Stephen
Decatur Middle in Clinton, 350115, in the ﬁrst game of the day.
“Kenmoor was a pretty
tough team, and we tried our
best,” said Decatur sixth-grader
Daesha Tyler, who competed
alongside eighth-graders Dylan
Derringer and Roderic Williams.
Kenmoor earned the
fourth berth in the middle
school semiﬁnals, which will
take place March 18. Kenmoor
will take on Thomas G. Pullen
Creative and Performing Arts
School in Landover. The winner will face either Greenbelt
Middle or Samuel Ogle Middle
in Bowie for the championship.
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Eberly noted that organized
labor is typically a big spender
in Democratic races.
“In a primary situation, one
candidate could completely
wash over another one, so strategically [for Gansler] it makes
sense,” Eberly said. “Strategically, it would be crazy for
Brown to agree to it.”
Election law limits the
amount of collaboration a
campaign and a third party
group can have, Eberly said.
If Brown agrees, it threatens to deter his endorsers from
spending anyway, because
any outside money spent on
Brown’s behalf would harm
the campaign, Eberly said.
Since campaign reform
started in the early 2000s,
more third-party money has
been seeping into races as
those with deep pockets seek
to inﬂuence the outcome of
elections, Eberly said.
Studies, he said, also suggest that ads run by outside
groups are disproportionately
negative.
But while people say they
are sick and tired of negative
ads, there is at least a slight indication that negative ads may
stick with voters more than
positive ads, Eberly said.
known for his work on social justice and combating
inequalities, according to
Mizeur’s campaign.
Others might recognize
him as the senior pastor at
Mount Ennon Baptist Church
in Clinton.
Since 2004 he has led the
church, growing its membership to 8,000. He said will continue to preach and lead the
church it even while on the
campaign trail.
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In her bid to be Maryland’s
next governor, Del. Heather
Mizeur introduced her running
mate, the Rev. Delman Coates
— a Prince George’s County
pastor and political newcomer
— to supporters in Silver Spring
on Nov. 13.
From afar, it might seem
like an unlikely pairing — a
black Baptist minister and a
white lesbian — but Mizeur
said her and Coates’ progressive values and vision for
Maryland align perfectly.
Coates, 40, brings charisma, passion and loyalty
to the campaign, as well as a
talent for community engagement, said Mizeur (D-Dist. 20)
of Takoma Park, who also is
40.
A Mizeur-Coates ticket
rounds out the Democratic
ﬁeld and shifts focus to Prince
George’s County as a battleground in the June 2014 primary, as each Democratic
ticket includes a candidate
from that county.
Attorney General Douglas
F. Gansler’s running mate,
Del. Jolene Ivey (D-Dist. 47),
lives in Cheverly.
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown
is a Mitchellville resident. His
lieutenant governor candidate
is Howard County Executive
Ken Ulman.
As of October 2012, Prince
George’s had 443,643 enrolled
Democrats, the most of any
jurisdiction in Maryland and
about 22 percent of the state’s
total. The next highest was
Montgomery, with 345,449
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POLICE BLOTTER
This activity report is provided by the Prince George’s
County Police Department as
a public service to the community and is not a complete
listing of all events and crime
reported.
District 2
Headquarters, Bowie, 301390-2100 Glenn Dale, Kettering, Lanham, Largo, Seabrook,
Woodmore, Lake Arbor, Mitchellville and Upper Marlboro.
NOV. 11
Theft from vehicle, 8300
block Old Marlboro Pike, 7:06
a.m.
Theft, 13700 block Kings Isle
Court, 10:28 a.m.
Theft, 12700 block Craft
Lane, 11:42 a.m.
Theft, 2900 block Lake Forest
Drive, 12:18 p.m.
Theft, 4300 block Reverend
Eversﬁeld Court, 12:49 p.m.
Theft, 14800 block Pratt St.,
7:43 p.m.
Residential break-in, 9800
block Good Luck Road, 8:52 p.m.
NOV. 12
Theft from vehicle, 4600
block Colonel Fenwick Place,
3:42 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 14300
block Marlborough Lane, 6:21
a.m.
Commercial property breakin, 9400 block Annapolis Road,
8:27 a.m.
Theft, Trade Zone Ave./Nb
Prince Georges Blvd., 9:12 a.m.
Theft, 600 block Crain Highway SW, 9:19 a.m.
Theft, 9200 block Basil Court,
10:16 a.m.
Theft, 9400 block Peppercorn
Place, 10:55 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 11000
block Winsford Ave., 11:46 a.m.
Residential break-in, 4400
block Old Crain Highway, 3:16
p.m.
Theft, 900 block Lake Front
Drive, 4:13 p.m.
Residential break-in, 11500
block Dunloring Drive, 4:16 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9400
block Annapolis Road, 6:40 p.m.
Theft, 700 block Church Road
S, 9:36 p.m.
Theft, 12300 block Quilt
Patch Lane, 9:58 p.m.
Theft, 4100 block Crain Highway NW, 10:18 p.m.
NOV. 13
Theft from vehicle, 12800
block Kendale Lane, 12:58 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 200 block
Harry S. Truman Drive, 6:36 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12600
block Hilda Court, 7:22 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 900 block Pine
Forest Lane, 7:39 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 800 block
Largo Center Drive, 9:31 a.m.
Theft, 600 block Crain Highway SW, 10:12 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 2200
block Crain Highway NW, 10:28
a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9400
block Annapolis Road, 11:34
a.m.
Residential break-in, 6200
block Bell Station Road, 1:25
p.m.
Theft, 600 block Crain Highway SW, 3:13 p.m.
Theft, 400 block Lonsdale
Court, 6:52 p.m.
Marlboro Pike, 9:49 a.m.
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Theft from vehicle, 4100
block Northview Drive, 5:12 p.m.
Theft, 5300 block Waverton
Court, 6:18 p.m.
Theft, 9900 block Good Luck
Road, 6:40 p.m.
Residential break-in, 9400
block Acorn Park St., 7:42 p.m.
Robbery on commercial
property, 10600 block Greenbelt
Road, 8:22 p.m.
NOV. 15
Vehicle stolen, 9400 block
Annapolis Road, 1:37 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 9000 block
Orbit Lane, 6:21 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, Lords Landing Road/Bishops Bequest Road,
7:28 a.m.
Theft, 9700 block Good Luck
Road, 9:16 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9500
block Lanham Severn Road, 9:33
a.m.
Theft, 3500 block Majestic
Lane, 11:34 a.m.
Theft, 9100 block 4th St., 3:34
p.m.
Theft, 8900 block Hobart St.,
4:37 p.m.
Robbery, 4100 block Woodhaven Lane, 7:16 p.m.
Theft, 10500 block Campus
Way S, 8:16 p.m.
Robbery, 3900 block Evergreen Pky., 8:42 p.m.
Robbery, 15800 block Collington Road, 9:28 p.m.
NOV. 16
Theft, 9100 block Basil Court,
5:25 a.m.
Assault, 600 block Crain
Highway SW, 8:49 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4300
block Quanders Promise Drive,
8:58 a.m.
562V, 3500 block Mase Lane,
9:40 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1000
block Largo Center Drive, 2:22
p.m.
Theft, 12400 block Fairwood
Pky., 2:28 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8800
block Lottsford Road, 3:54 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12100
block Maycheck Lane, 4:16 p.m.
Theft, unit block of Watkins
Park Drive, 6:51 p.m.
Robbery, 11400 block Waesche Drive, 8:37 p.m.
Theft, 3200 block Superior
Lane, 8:46 p.m.
NOV. 17
Commercial property breakin, 15300 block Old Chapel Road,
4:25 a.m.
Assault, 11000 block Old
in, 13600 block Annapolis Road,
12:01 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12100
block Mackell Lane, 12:48 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6200
block 93rd Place, 1:46 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6900
block Cipriano Road, 3:04 p.m.
District 3
Headquarters, Palmer Park,
301-772-4900. Chapel Oaks,
Cheverly, Glenarden, Fairmount
Heights, Kentland, Landover,
Palmer Park, Seat Pleasant, Forestville, Suitland, District Heights
and Capitol Heights.
NOV. 11
Vehicle stolen, 6100 block
Central Ave., 2:40 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 2000 block
Brooks Drive, 7:22 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, Eb Pennsylvania Ave. /Nb. Silver Hill
Road, 8:24 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 2900
block Donnell Drive, 8:28 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 2500
block Kent Village Drive, 11:06
a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1600
block Eastern Ave., 12:37 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1900
block Rochell Ave., 3:22 p.m.
Theft, 7300 block Landover
Road, 3:25 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1000
block Glen Willow Drive, 4:12
p.m.
Robbery, Nb. Silver Hill
Road/Pearl Drive, 6:22 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 3400 block
Dodge Park Road, 7:10 p.m.
Robbery, 5800 block Martin
Luther King Jr Highway, 7:10
p.m.
Theft, 5100 block Southern
Ave., 7:34 p.m.
Theft, 6100 block Marlboro
Pike, 7:43 p.m.
NOV. 12
Robbery, 1400 block Capital
View Terrace, 12:51 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 8600 block
Darcy Road, 5:24 a.m.
Theft, 8000 block Parston
Drive, 5:51 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 2100
block Weber Drive, 7:07 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 5100 block
Southern Ave., 7:36 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 2600 block
Markham Lane, 7:58 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 5500 block
Marlboro Pike, 8:49 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 8000 block
Cryden Way, 9:12 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5800
block Martin Luther King Jr
Highway, 10:40 a.m.
Theft, 2200 block Wintergreen Ave., 11:04 a.m.
Theft, 3500 block Regency
Pky, 11:49 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4900
block Marlboro Pike, 12:16 p.m.
Carjacking, 4200 block
Southern Ave., 12:30 p.m.
Theft, 8200 block Martin Luther King Highway, 1:10 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 7300
block Marlboro Pike, 1:58 p.m.
Residential break-in, 1000
block 58th Ave., 2:28 p.m.
Robbery on commercial
property, 5400 block Marlboro
Pike, 4:58 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 7000 block
Marlboro Pike, 5:49 p.m.
Residential break-in, 5600
block Regency Park Court, 6:13
p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 2000 block
Addison Road S, 6:34 p.m.
Theft, 2500 block Wintergreen Ave., 7:10 p.m.
NOV. 13
Theft from vehicle, 1200
block Quo Ave., 8:52 a.m.
Commercial property breakin, 5900 block Martin Luther
King Highway, 9:34 a.m.
Residential break-in, 6500
block Hil Mar Drive, 9:43 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 5800 block
Silver Hill Road, 1:13 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5700
block Blk Silver Hill Road, 1:28
p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 3400 block
Wood Creek Drive, 1:45 p.m.
Theft, 1600 block Quarter
Ave., 5:10 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1900
block Brooks Drive, 5:48 p.m.
Theft, 3700 block West St.,
8:25 p.m.
NOV. 14
Robbery, Randall Road/Silver
Hill Road, 12:01 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4800
block Addison Road, 1:58 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4200
block Suitland Road, 5:43 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5600
block Regency Park Court, 6:42
a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 7700
block Michele Drive, 7:04 a.m.
Robbery, 7500 block Landover Road, 9:06 a.m.
Theft, 5800 block Silver Hill
Road, 10 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 6900 block
Marlboro Pike, 10:22 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8200
block Landover Road, 10:48 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5600
block Silver Hill Road, 10:54 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6000
block North Hil Mar Cir, 11:39
a.m.
Residential break-in, 300
block Tayside Way, 11:49 a.m.
Theft, 900 block Hilldropt
Court, 11:55 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 7400
block Belgravia Lane, 2:57 p.m.
Theft, 6100 block Marlboro
Pike, 3:04 p.m.
Commercial property breakin, 7300 block Northern Ave.,
block Seasons Way, 9:58 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 4000 block
Bald Hill Terrace, 10 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 15400 block
Neman Drive, 10:16 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9900
block Good Luck Road, 10:21
a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 500 block
Largo Center Drive, 10:34 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8700
block Seasons Way, 11:09 a.m.
Theft, 14300 block Gallant
Fox Lane, 11:24 a.m.
Robbery, 8500 block Greenbelt Road, 12:04 p.m.
Theft, 800 block Capital Center Blvd., 12:43 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8500
block Magnolia Drive, 12:52 p.m.
Residential break-in, 9900
block Good Luck Road, 1:31 p.m.
Residential break-in, 2800
block Mill Branch Road, 2:12
p.m.
Theft, 9900 block Good Luck
Road, 2:48 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 700 block
Harry S Truman Drive, 3:39 p.m.
Theft, 4300 block Sutherland
Cir, 5:03 p.m.
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Drive, 2:19 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9300
block Good Luck Road, 6:07 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8600
block Magnolia Drive, 6:52 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4400
block Patuxent Overlook Drive,
6:55 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 17200
block Longleaf Drive, 7:25 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8700
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Vehicle stolen and recovered, 8500 block Rainswood
NOV. 14
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A Suitland woman was found
dead outside a Landover home
Tuesday.
Preliminary investigation
by police indicates that Stefanie
Anne Littlejohn, 30, of Suitland,
was not the victim of a random attack, said Police Ofﬁcer First Class
Harry Bond.
She was pronounced dead
when she was found outside a
home in the 2400 block of Kent
Village Place after officers re-
sponded to a call regarding a
stabbing at about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday, said Lt. William Alexander, a
county police spokesman.
The cause of death is unknown, with police working to
identify her wounds as gunshots,
stabs or some other trauma, Alexander said. Police are working
on identifying a list of suspects,
he said.
Anyone with information can
call the homicide unit at 301-7724925 or report tips anonymously
by calling the Crime Solvers line
at 1-866-411-8477. Tips leading
to an arrest and indictment can
result in a reward of up to $25,000.
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Upper Marlboro arson
destroyed 10 vehicles
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Investigation continues
BY CHASE COOK
STAFF WRITER
Prince George’s County ﬁre/
EMS ofﬁcials said a Nov. 13 arson in Watkins Regional Park destroyed 10 vehicles, nine of which
belong to the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission, with damages totaling
about $110,000.
The ﬁre/EMS department was
dispatched at about 5 a.m. to the
Upper Marlboro park, where they
discovered a vehicle on ﬁre and
another vehicle partially burning,
said Mark Brady, county ﬁre/EMS
spokesman.
Upon further inspection, investigators found that 10 total
vehicles had been destroyed after
a personal vehicle, a Cadillac, not
owned by the commission, was
set on ﬁre at about 2 a.m., Brady
said.
The wind spread the ﬁre from
the private car to the nine other
vehicles, which included minivans, sedans, small buses and
other vehicles belonging to the
commission, Brady said.
The ﬁre has been labeled an
arson, and ﬁre investigators are
continuing their work, looking
into the status of the initial vehicle
set on ﬁre to determine if the vehicle was stolen, Brady said.
As of Tuesday, the Fire/EMS
Department is still investigating
the ﬁre and has no further information, he said.
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Police: Abduction story false
n
Youth reportedly lied
about incident
BY CHASE COOK
STAFF WRITER
A 12-year-old who said he
was nearly abducted near Central
High School in Capitol Heights
on Friday prompted a Prince
George’s County police search.
But after police spent a portion of Saturday canvassing the
neighborhood looking for the alleged abductor and talking to witnesses, the youth admitted that he
made the event up, police said.
County police received the
initial call at 5:15 p.m. on Friday
to the 200 block of Cabin Branch
Road in Capitol Heights for an attempted abduction.
Information about the alleged
victim’s motives and potential
punishment were not available,
said Nicole Hubbard, county police spokeswoman.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 bo
Kennedy assassination still
raises questions 50 years later
Maryland autopsy among
more controversial aspects
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BY
KEVIN JAMES SHAY
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STAFF WRITER
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In the early-morning hours
of Nov. 23, 1963, Dr. James J.
Humes washed his hands after
overseeing what is arguably the
most controversial autopsy in
modern U.S. history at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, now Walter
Reed National Military Medical
Center.
The director of laboratories
of the National Medical School
in Bethesda took his notes of
the proceedings to his Bethesda
home and burned them after
meticulously copying the records because, Humes later
testiﬁed, they were stained with
John F. Kennedy’s blood and
“inappropriate to be turned over
to anyone.”
“Having transcribed those
notes … I destroyed those pieces
of paper,” Humes, who died in
1999, testiﬁed in 1977 before a
medical panel convened by the
U.S. House Select Committee
on Assassinations, one of several
political bodies that investigated
the killing. “I felt they would fall
into the hands of some sensation seeker.”
That admission is one of
many facets of the case that have
fueled speculation of a cover-up
and conspiracy over Kennedy’s
death for the past 50 years. As
the half-century anniversary approaches Friday, the autopsy in
Bethesda continues to be one
of the more controversial elements.
“Dr. Humes may have had
his reasons for burning the original autopsy notes,” Philip Shenon, a former New York Times
journalist and author of a new
book, “A Cruel and Shocking
Act: The Secret History of the
Kennedy Assassination,” said
in an interview. “But it was still
jaw-dropping to discover what
he did.”
Jim Lesar, president of the
Assassination Archives and
Research Center, a private organization in Silver Spring that
preserves documents and other
records on political assassinations, added, “It was an extraordinarily controversial autopsy
that has been denounced by
many authorities in the ﬁeld.”
Walter Reed does not have
anyone still working there who
can comment on the autopsy,
but a historian at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
was preparing an information
packet Tuesday about the autopsy and Navy medicine, said
Katie Mollet, a medical center
spokeswoman.
James Curtis Jenkins, one of
the few present at the autopsy
still alive, is scheduled to speak
this weekend during a conference in Dallas on the assassination organized by JFK Lancer
Productions and Publications.
In his 1977 testimony,
Humes said he was “distressed”
over allegations of being involved in a cover-up, which he
called “totally ridiculous.” He reiterated his testimony before the
Warren Commission, formed in
1964 by President Lyndon B.
Johnson to investigate the killing. Humes said he believed two
gunshots struck Kennedy and
both came from behind.
But when asked if he could
say the shots came from above,
Humes stopped short. Accused
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was
thought by the Warren Commission to have shot at Kennedy
from behind and above, from
the sixth floor of the nearby
Texas School Book Depository.
Humes acknowledged burning an original draft of the autopsy report that was not stained
with Kennedy’s blood because
he “didn’t want anything to remain that some squirrel would
grab on and make whatever use
that they might.”
Dr. Michael Baden testiﬁes in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 7, 1978, with
X-rays and drawings.
‘Hysterical’ scene
Conspiracy sentiment
The scene in that Bethesda
examination room was “hysterical,” with a large contingent
of ofﬁcials and medical professionals in the room, Humes testiﬁed in 1977. Kennedy’s wife,
Jacqueline, and brother Robert
remained at the hospital, and a
crowd gathered outside on the
grounds.
“How we kept our wits about
us as well as we did is amazing
to me,” Humes said. “There was
no question but we were being
urged to expedite this examination as quickly as possible. … We
made every effort to put aside
[such urgings] and approach
this investigation in as scientiﬁc
a manner as we could. But did it
harass us and cause difﬁculty?
Of course it did; how could it
not?”
The House committee medical panel, headed by former
New York City chief medical
examiner Michael Baden, concurred with the Warren Commission and Bethesda autopsy
pathologists that two bullets had
struck Kennedy from behind.
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But there was a key dissenter,
former Allegheny County, Pa.,
coroner Cyril Wecht, who disagreed that a single bullet struck
Kennedy and then caused all of
the wounds to Texas Gov. John
Connally, who was riding in the
car with Kennedy.
“Without the single-bullet
theory, there cannot be one assassin, whether it is Oswald or
anybody else,” Wecht testiﬁed
in 1978. He also raised questions
about the “remote” possibility
of another shot ﬁred from the
right side or lower right rear that
could have struck Kennedy at
the same time a shot struck him
in the back of the head.
A recent Gallup poll showed
that 61 percent of Americans
believe others besides Oswald
were involved in Kennedy’s killing. That’s down from 75 percent a decade ago.
Among those who professed
questions in recent years was
James W. Sibert, a former FBI
agent who took notes in the
Bethesda autopsy room for the
federal agency. Sibert, who died
in 2012, was quoted in numerous published reports that he
didn’t “buy the single-bullet
theory.”
Humes told the assassinations review board that the remains of Kennedy’s brain was
placed in a stainless-steel container during the autopsy.
The remains reportedly
were taken to the National Archives in 1965, but they turned
up missing in 1966.
The House assassinations
committee “was not able to
determine precisely what happened to the missing materials,”
the panel said in its report.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 bo
Council defers vote on minimum wage
n
No date set for decision
BY CHASE COOK
STAFF WRITER
Approving raises to the minimum wage will have to wait
as the Prince George’s County
Council decided not to vote on
a bill that would raise the minimum wage by a total of $4.25
over a three-year period.
County Council Chairwoman Andrea Harrison (DDist. 5) of Springdale said the
council was waiting on information from Montgomery County
before it passed the bill.
The minimum wage bill was
announced as a regional collaboration between Montgomery
and Prince George’s counties
and Washington, D.C., to limit
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people looking to shop and be
entertained,” Baker said.
If trafﬁc does backup, the
area around the Tanger location
will be stocked with some portable cameras to monitor trafﬁc
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plication now comes with the
board’s recommendation for
denial.
Lisa Avery, advisory planning board chairwoman, said
she felt the board made the right
decision for the people of the
city, who had come out strong
competition with other counties
that may attract businesses with
lower employee wages.
“At some point we have to act
and do the job we were elected
to do,” Harrison said during
the council’s Tuesday meeting.
“There is unanimous support on
this council for this bill.”
The bill would raise the
county’s minimum wage to
$11.50 over a three-year period
with incremental increases. Employees who were exempt from
state and federal wage laws and
employees under the age of 18
working 20 or less hours would
be exempt, according to the bill.
David Iannucci, the county
executive’s assistant deputy
chief administrative ofﬁcer for
economic development and
public infrastructure, was in favor of the council’s delay.
If Prince George’s County
were to raise the wage alone,
the high-end retail stores that
county residents are looking for
may choose to build in other locations, he said.
“It was wise to wait and determine what D.C. and Montgomery
County were going to do,” Iannucci said. “We have serious concerns about the ability of Prince
George’s County’s economy to
stand alone with a higher wage
scale than our neighbors.”
No date has been set for the
vote, but Harrison said the plan
is to vote on the bill before the
end of the council’s 2013 legislative session.
Bills that don’t receive a vote
by the end of the session are said
to have failed and must be reintroduced, according to council
rules.
ﬂow in case cars back up to Interstate 95, prompting the need
for adjustments by the Maryland State Highway Administration, said SHA spokesman David
Buck.
“We are certainly aware of
that weekend,” Buck said. “If
it is only parking that becomes
overwhelmed, that’s an issue for
National Harbor.”
Tanger’s opening is occurring about a year after construction started.
Each store is having its own
separate sales and Tanger is offering a coupon on its website as
part of the event, Wallace said.
against Wal-Mart moving and
building a bigger store.
The board’s decision contradicts the Bowie Planning
Department staff’s recommendation to approve Wal-Mart’s
application.
“A lot of people against [WalMart] were passionate and had a
strong argument,” Avery said.
Andre Gingles, an attorney
representing Wal-Mart, said
he was disappointed with the
board’s decision, and he had
conﬁdence that Wal-Mart’s application meets all of the criteria
for approval by the Bowie City
Council.
“We think that we met all the
criteria and the planning staff
was accurate,” Gingles said. “We
hope to eventually prevail.”
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“Anything is possible at this point and time,”
Thagard said.
Bowie hasn’t been completely forgotten,
another major city construction project, an expansion of Md. 197, also known as Collington
Road, near Kenhill Drive received $11 million
in funding for engineering. Construction funding for Collington Road has not yet been provided, Meinert said, adding that there was a lot
of money announced in the $650 million Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013
earlier this year, “and none of it came here.”
“Everyone agrees that it has to be done,” Robinson said.
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worked out well since its installation in 2005.
“You can put in private alerts
also, if you have someone with
a custody issue, or if the school
has had a previous issue with a
person,” said Yatsuk.
While he did not have statistics available by deadline, Yatsuk
said quite a few sex offenders on
school property were identiﬁed
via the system.
Yatsuk said that if an individual is ﬂagged, staff can compare
photos or physical descriptions
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with the individual, and if they
match, can send an alert to
school security and police.
Yatsuk said Anne Arundel’s
system cost $1,500 per school
for installation in the ﬁrst year,
and now costs $470 per school
per year.
Ernest Moore, president
of the Prince George’s County
PTA Council, said such a system
could greatly improve school
security.
“I think it’s a great idea. It
provides an extra level of documentation,” Moore said.
Moore said his only concerns were the cost of such a
system, and ensuring that staff
are trained regarding confidential information that may
come up.
Yatsuk said there were some
initial concerns regarding privacy in Anne Arundel County.
“But that’s really gone away
now, as people have understood
the importance of keeping our
schools safe,” Yatsuk said.
Jen Ontiveros of Greenbelt
teaches at William Tyler Paige
Elementary School in Colesville,
which she said uses an ID scan
system.
Ontiveros, who has children
attending two Prince George’s
elementary schools, said she
would like to see such a system
in her children’s schools.
“I think it may be a little difﬁcult to get started, but once it’s
up and running, it’s great,” Ontiveros said.
Maxwell said the design of
new school construction will direct visitors to the ofﬁce before
they can access the rest of the
school.
Referred to as locking vestibules, several new schools
including Greenbelt Middle
School, Fairmont Heights High
School and Vansville Elementary School, have this feature
and it will be included in the design of all future schools, Barrett
said.
To secure temporary buildings, Maxwell said establishing
a 6-foot fence around the perimeter will help limit unauthorized access, and is something
the school system is working to
provide at all 96 schools that use
temporary buildings.
Other security efforts include conducting drills for an
active shooter threat on both the
schools and main school system
levels.
“While you cannot stop
someone with a Bushmaster
from getting into a building, you
can certainly limit what he can
do with an appropriate security
response,” Maxwell said.
The school system conducts active shooter drills in
collaboration with local law
enforcement every year. In
July, an active shooter drill was
held at High Point High School
in Beltsville.
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Prince George’s County schools CEO Kevin Maxwell talks about challenges in the school system with The Gazette editorial board Nov. 14.
Finding new hope
for old challenges
To say that Prince George’s schools CEO Kevin Maxwell has his hands full may be the understatement of the
year.
Hired this past summer, Maxwell is hoping to make
gains in a long struggling school system at a time of signiﬁcant upheaval in county and state education — and at a
point when many Prince George’s parents have run out of
patience.
And, as he noted in a Nov. 14 interview with The Gazette editorial board, “We’re a big organization. One of the
largest in the country.”
The topic of school security alone could ﬁll up much
of his days. He’s seeking
installation of a security sysSCHOOL CEO tem at county schools that
visitors’ identiﬁcation
HAS MAJOR TASK; scans
cards using information from
COUNTY NEEDS other databases in deciding
MAJOR RESULTS whether to allow access to a
school (people listed on the
sexual offender registry would
be ﬂagged, for example).
Some county schools have systems that scan IDs, but the
system doesn’t use other databases. He’s also debating
whether to put high fences around temporary classrooms
to better secure the trailer-like structures, and believes security training in schools and administrative ofﬁces needs
to be increased.
The condition of school buildings is yet another Pandora’s box. Many county schools are old and in such bad
shape that funding has struggled to keep up with facility
needs. Maxwell is eyeing the different possibilities regarding funding, such as whether the school system could get
upfront state aid rather than getting it piecemeal over
multiple years. He’s also pushing for more efﬁcient ways
of planning facility improvements, to include better coordination between agencies.
And those issues are just the tip of the iceberg.
Prince George’s students’ test scores rank near or at
the bottom each year on state tests. With the implementation underway of new national education standards, the
Common Core curriculum, Maxwell said scores are likely
to take a dip when students take the new test aligned with
the curriculum next school year. Granted, a drop in scores
is expected in general on the new tests, but such news can
be particularly hard to take in a county where, at some
schools, less than half the students score proﬁcient or advanced in reading and math.
Add in the problem of teachers ﬂeeing for higher paying jobs elsewhere, a controversial teacher evaluation system, needed expansion of specialty education programs,
low parental involvement and a school system structure
that was overhauled just weeks before he was hired, and
it’s clear that he’ll earn every bit of his $290,000 annual salary if he actually brings results.
And he’s optimistic that he will, explaining that parents
should be able to see real differences in schools as early
as a year from now. Maxwell said he has a team focusing
on improving the county’s graduation rate, is working
collaboratively with other agencies and organizations to
provide school resources, and hopes to release a plan soon
outlining an expansion of specialty education programs, if
funding allows.
He understands the need to see signiﬁcant progress
in the school system and put his challenge in very simple
terms: “We have to get better faster than other districts.”
It’s not the ﬁrst time a new school leader has come to
the county armed with good intentions and great ideas,
but Maxwell is different in that he actually knows the
county. He began his education career in Prince George’s
in 1978, is a longtime Bowie resident, had children graduate from the school system and was a former principal in
Prince George’s. His background allows him to bypass the
learning curve many superintendents have had in ﬁguring
out the system’s challenges, and he’s less likely to bail for a
job in another state given his roots in Prince George’s.
Nevertheless, the road ahead will be rough, and residents who haven’t had a superintendent last more than
four years in more than two decades will understandably
be skeptical about whether Maxwell is the real deal or another peddler of hope.
Now, more than ever, results matter.
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Douglas S. Hayes,
Associate Publisher
I have been hearing the controversy
over the Redskins name, most recently in
your Letters to the Editors section on Oct.
31. I take offense that this issue has been
twisted into a “moral dilemma” and likened to instances of childhood (or adult)
name-calling. It’s time that people stand
up to the radical political correctness
agenda and say enough is enough.
The Washington Redskins are not
calling anyone names. The Washington
Redskins have chosen a distinguished logo
and named themselves. This name has
existed since 1933 as a tribute to then head
coach, William “Lone Star” Dietz, who was
believed to have a Native American heritage. It was also an evolution of the previous name, the “Braves,” that referenced
Native Americans but was changed due to
confusion with the Boston Braves baseball
team. The time for outrage, if ever, was in
1933 when the name was changed. The
time for acceptance that the word has
evolved in meaning and context is now, in
2013.
The people urging for sensitivity and
political correctness neglect to view the
word in the context it is being used. There
A word is not a racial slur
simply because someone
chooses to categorize it
that way, or even if in a
different time or context it
was used that way.
is an extreme difference between being called a “damned Yankee” in a New
York baseball stadium and being called a
“damned Yankee” in a southern tavern.
One of those scenarios more than likely
precipitates a ﬁstﬁght. The same can be
argued for the Redskins team name. The
danger of this radical political correctness
is that it rips words from their contexts and
infuses them with the omnipotent power
to offend despite the actual meaning behind them.
When did making a racial slur stop
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Dan Gross, Photo Editor
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Meredith Pendergrass, Bowie
Kennedy’s education dream left unfulﬁlled
“A child miseducated is a child lost.” —
JFK.
Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary
of the assassination of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy.
My fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Turner,
steps out of the classroom for a minute
and returns, visibly shaken, to announce
we will be dismissed to the buses and sent
home a little early today because President
Kennedy has been killed in Dallas.
The baby boom generation’s ﬁrst socalled “ﬂashbulb” memory, virtually everyone alive on Nov. 22, 1963, remembers,
with almost photographic precision, the
moment they heard the news. Indelibly
burned into my mind’s eye is the image
of my mother, Kleenex in hand, her eyes
swollen from an afternoon of weeping in
front of the television waiting on every
word from Walter Cronkite, then the news
anchorman for CBS. Given the vivid nature
of the memories, it is difﬁcult to comprehend that half a century separates us from
that dark hour of American history.
It is fraught with unintended irony that
the end of American Education Week this
year will coincide with a landmark anniversary of such a deep scar on our national
psyche. Is it not worrisome that, in the
intervening decades, we have never again
focused with such laser-like intensity on
achievable national goals such as landing
a man on the moon and returning him
safely? Is it not disturbing that political
agendas now seem most intent on erecting
roadblocks and barricades to noble and
visionary causes?
My generation, the one called to commit itself to national service and the common good, will forever wonder whether JFK
might have inspired this nation to achieve
his goal of giving all children “the right to
an education to the limit of their ability.”
As we celebrate our educational accomplishments and set our goals for the
future, it is abundantly clear that this nation possesses sufﬁcient resources to meet
the needs of every child. It is not clear,
however, that we will ever muster the po-
litical will to render ZIP codes irrelevant to
educational opportunity so that we create
a world free of the concept of disposable
children.
Kenneth B. Haines is the president of
the Prince George’s County Educators’
Association.
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Election tea leaves
Any lessons from the Nov. 5 “off year”
elections in New Jersey, Virginia and a host
of small Maryland municipalities?
Thanks to his impressive victory in
New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie is the
frontrunner for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination. Pundits say he’s the perfect “crossover” moderate who can attract
Democrats and independents because he
won 32 percent of New Jersey’s Democrats, 21 percent of blacks, 57 percent of
women and 51 percent of Latinos.
But Christie has
two problems: ﬁrst,
he’s being set up by
the national media
with the same “I’ll
call you in the morning” treatment John
McCain got when he
opposed George
Bush in 2000. The
MY MARYLAND
media promoted
BLAIR LEE
McCain to undermine Bush but, in 2008, dropped McCain
like a hot rock in favor of Barack Obama.
Likewise, today’s media is using Christie to
undermine the tea party, but in 2016 Chris
Christie will wonder why all his gushing
media buddies are lined up behind Hillary
Clinton.
Christie’s second problem is the tea
party, whom he must convince that he’s
not a RINO (Republican in name only).
That’s a tough sell even though Christie
has pretty solid conservative credentials:
vetoed gay marriage, cut taxes, stood
up to employee unions, pro-life and so
on. But he took a pass on Mitt Romney’s
campaign, hasn’t helped conservative candidates elsewhere and buddied up with
Obama after Hurricane Sandy.
Christie can never out-tea party Ted
Cruz or Rand Paul, who also covet the 2016
nomination. But only Christie has a credible chance of defeating Hillary. And that,
in a nutshell, is the GOP’s conundrum.
The purpose of a political party is to
win the election and run the government
in accordance with its political philoso-
phy. It’s a package deal: The party’s philosophy must inspire enough voters to win
the election. Right now the GOP is in the
midst of realigning its political philosophy
so that it accommodates its tea party base
while winning national elections.
Shifts in national events and passions
shape political parties, not the other way
around. Parties are the manifestation of
changes in the popular will. When events
cause a popular uprising signiﬁcant
enough to attract large numbers of voters, the political parties must absorb the
movement before it morphs into a third
political party.
The Whig party stood for industrialization but opposed Manifest Destiny, the
Mexican War and Andrew Jackson. However, when slavery overshadowed expansion, it split the Whigs and gave birth to
the anti-slavery Republican Party and the
Civil War.
Sidelined for decades after the Civil
War, the Democrats ﬁnally regained
control by forming an unholy alliance of
northern workers, western farmers and
southern segregationists, a deal that sold
blacks down the river.
The 1960s social upheavals saw another realignment as southern whites became Republicans while the Democratic
Party became the party of racial minorities
(the last Democratic presidential candidate to win a white majority was LBJ in
1964).
Now the Republicans must accommodate those Americans upset by debt, dysfunction and moral decline (the tea party)
by making their concerns the party’s top
agenda items. Then, it must convince a
national majority to agree.
It’s a tough task being made easier by
the Democrats. The Obamacare debacle
almost pulled out a victory for a Virginia
gubernatorial candidate who had everything going against him. Also, last month,
Kay Hagan, the North Carolina Dem swept
into the U.S. Senate by Obama’s 2008 win,
was ahead by double digits. Now she’s
trailing her chief GOP rival by one point.
The worse Obamacare grows, the more it
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requiring the speaker to be racist and
actually intend to make a slur? A word is
not a racial slur simply because someone
chooses to categorize it that way, or even
if in a different time or context it was used
that way. In the year 2013, the Redskins
name has been emptied of any historical
offense and is not used abusively, it is uttered innocently by proud sports fans. The
meanings of words evolve over time and to
neglect the ebb and ﬂow of our lexicon in
order to feign offense is absurd.
In its worst light, if the Redskins name
is deemed to offend some, there is no right
to be free from being offended. The segment of the population that has gotten
better than ever at ﬁnding reasons to take
offense should not have the power to pressure a team to abandon their First Amendment rights of choosing their own name.
This issue is not about taking responsibility, being role models to our children or
name-calling; it’s about learning to tolerate the choices of others even if they are
not the same ones you would make. It’s
about respecting diversity in this country
even if the beliefs of others offend you.
Dennis Wilston, Corporate Advertising Director
Doug Baum, Corporate Classiﬁeds Director
Mona Bass, Inside Classiﬁeds Director
Jean Casey, Director of Marketing and Circulation
Anna Joyce, Creative Director, Special Pubs/Internet
Ellen Pankake, Director of Creative Services
looks like a 2014 game changer for Republicans whose slogan will be, “We told you
so.”
Meanwhile, all’s quiet back in Maryland where voters returned the incumbents in Gaithersburg, Takoma Park,
Bowie, Rockville, Annapolis, College Park,
Frederick and so on. The big exception
was the Annapolis mayor’s race where a
Republican narrowly defeated the incumbent Democrat. In typical one-party think,
the majority Democratic City Council
considered legislation stripping the new
mayor of all his powers but a voter backlash now has the council in hasty retreat.
Otherwise, not a blip on the radar.
Looks like the 2010 elections all over again
when the national tea party rebellion
(“shellacking,” said Obama) swept the nation but bypassed Maryland. If there’s a
voter rebellion brewing in Maryland, you
sure couldn’t tell it by the recent elections.
But here’s a good sidebar: In 2005 the
legislature passed a law that says no person can “willfully and knowingly inﬂuence
or attempt to inﬂuence a voter’s decision
whether to go to the polls ... through the
use of force, fraud, threat, menace” etc.
Two Ehrlich campaigners were tried
and convicted for using fake election day
robocalls telling blacks to stay home because Obama and O’Malley were safely reelected. One of the campaigners actually
went to jail.
The recent elections saw a host of similar “dirty tricks” including phony Frederick robocalls about a candidate’s “unpaid
taxes,” Annapolis lawn signs in black
neighborhoods falsely linking a candidate
to the tea party and robocalls went out to
Frederick voters giving them the wrong
polling place addresses.
Is the state prosecutor investigating?
Will anyone be charged, or tried or go to
jail? Is the moon made of green cheese?
Blair Lee is chairman of the board of
Lee Development Group in Silver Spring
and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.
com.
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Wise grad expands role at Bowie State
After changing schools, wing
player hopes to help Bulldogs build
off CIAA championship
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BY
KENT ZAKOUR
STAFF WRITER
David Golladay never complains. So
when he asked to come out of Saturday’s
game, Bowie State University’s men’s basketball coach Darrell Brooks was surprised.
“He took himself out of the game and
he doesn’t ever do that,” Brooks said. “So
I knew he was really hurt. He wasn’t moving well — he was playing through it — but I
guess it became too much.”
Golladay, who suffered a right thigh
contusion after getting hit in practice two
weeks ago, has stepped into a stating role
this winter for the Bulldogs. In four games,
the senior has averaged 6.0 points per game
with 1.3 rebounds a contest. But the injury
has limited the 2009 Henry A. Wise High
School graduate — he played 25 minutes in
each of the ﬁrst two contests and no more
than 11 in the two games since suffering the
injury.
“It’s hard to play on one leg,” Golladay
said with a laugh before practice on Tuesday. “The way I play, it’s my strong leg. I’ll
be ﬁne in a bit, but I just can’t move well at
all right now.”
When the 6-foot-2, 195-pound forward
is healthy, Brooks anticipates signiﬁcant
contributions to a team that won the Central
Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament last season.
“He starts for us for a reason,” Brooks
said. “He’s a really good athletic wing guy
that can score. He’s not a great 3-point
shooter, but he’s a very, very solid mid-
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Bowie State University basketball player and Henry A. Wise graduate David
Golladay is a key starter for the Bulldogs this winter.
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Jaguars struggle late in the season
without Malik White
BY
ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
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Quarterback Earon Settles (right) of Forestville High School carries the ball in the second half on a drive that produced a touch down against host Surrattsville Monday
in Clinton.
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BY
ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
INTO A
NEW HOME
n
FORESTVILLE’S EARON SETTLES
LED KNIGHTS ON OFFENSE
AND DEFENSE
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
DeMatha regains the
WCAC football crown
For the ﬁrst time since 2008,
DeMatha Catholic High School’s
football team is the Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference
champion.
Led by a dominant rushing
attack and an efﬁcient passing
performance from senior quarterback John Lovett, the Stags
defeated St. John’s College High
31-10 Saturday at Byrd Stadium
in College Park.
“Words can’t describe it,”
DeMatha coach Elijah Brooks
said after the game. “All the hard
work, the many hours of commitment to the program. For
our boys to come out here and
do this, man it’s the best feeling
in the world.”
Senior running back Taiwan
Deal rushed for 120 yards and a
touchdown while Lovett completed seven of nine passes for
108 yards.
Senior receiver Cameron
Phillips collected four receptions, including a 19-yard touch-
s if the new
teachers, positions and playbooks weren’t
enough for
Forestville Military Academy’s
Earon Settles,
the transfer student-athlete had
to adjust to a new nickname, too,
this fall.
Settles, known by his coaches
and teammates as “E-Ron,”
started at quarterback and safety
in his ﬁrst and ﬁnal season with
the Knights. The senior excelled
on both sides of the ball, leading
his team to an 8-3 record and a
trip to the postseason.
“I’ve come to realize that this
was meant for me. This is where I
should be,” Settles said.
Settles, a transfer, was effective under center, both as a run-
down in the ﬁrst half. DeMatha
(11-1) defeated St. John’s 26-21
when the teams met in the regular season.
Playoff rematch
Suitland (11-0) puts its perfect season on the line in the
Class 4A South Region title game
against DuVal (10-1), scheduled
for 1 p.m. Saturday in District
Heights.
The Rams defeated the Tigers 21-14 in the first round
of last year’s playoffs and won
21-6 in this fall’s regular-season
meeting.
ner and a passer. He ﬁnished the
season with 759 yards rushing,
630 yards passing and 24 total offensive touchdowns.
On defense, he was as impressive, recording 68 tackles, six
forced fumbles and three interceptions — two that were taken
back for touchdowns.
“The hardest hitter in the
county, bar none,” Forestville
coach Charles Harley said.
Settles played at Bishop
O’Connell in Virginia through his
junior season but landed in trouble last school year after stealing a
backpack — an act he regrets. He
received an in-school suspension
and said it was a tough situation.
He wanted a fresh start after
the incident, which is exactly what
he got at Forestville.
While transferring to a new
school as an upperclassman was
a challenge, he said being part of
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DuVal has won seven
straight games since losing to
Suitland and is coming off a 1412 victory over Henry A. Wise,
the defending 4A state champions.
Rams quarterback Wesley
Wolfolk threw for three touchdowns and ran for one in Suitland’s 31-7 semifinal victory
over Charles H. Flowers.
Surrattsville’s shutout
Surrattsville (9-2) will face
Sparrows Point in the Class 1A
North Region championship
after shutting out the Friend-
It was anything but a fairy-tale ﬁnish for Charles
H. Flowers High School quarterback Malik White,
who stood on the sidelines as his team was eliminated in the Class 4A South Region semiﬁnals.
After leading the Jaguars to a 7-0 start this fall,
the senior suffered a concussion and a knee injury
in back-to-back games. White’s injuries, combined
with Flowers’ difﬁcult late-season schedule, triggered a four-game losing streak which culminated
in Saturday’s 31-7 playoff loss to Suitland (11-0).
“We deﬁnitely missed him not being there,”
Flowers coach Mike Mayo said. “The playbook is
not as big without him in there.”
White was cruising in his ﬁrst year as a full-time
starting quarterback, helping the Jaguars dominate
their early-season opponents. Flowers outscored
opponents by a combined 224 points in its six victories, excluding Bowie’s forfeit.
“We were able to do some different things with
him,” Mayo said.
But the season went downhill after the hot start.
In the eighth game against Suitland, White went
down with a concussion and was forced out of the
game. The teams were scoreless heading into halftime before the Rams pulled away with a 27-6 victory.
White returned the following week in a 40-19
loss to DuVal and was again taken out of the game,
this time with a knee injury — a sprained medial collateral ligament.
The Jaguars played without White in their seasonﬁnale the next week, losing 25-0 to Henry A. Wise. The
following week in the postseason they were defeated
by Suitland with White on the sidelines and Brian
See FLOWERS, Page A-11
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Charles H. Flowers High School quarterback Malik White
tries to recover the ball against DuVal.
ship Academy Engineering &
Tech of Baltimore 35-0 in the
semiﬁnals.
Hornets tailback Amaru
Major ran for 194 yards, including a 70-yard touchdown on the
team’s ﬁrst offensive play.
The game is scheduled for 1
p.m. on Saturday at Surrattsville.
Harvey Valentine, Terron
Hampton and Ted Black contributed.
Clash of unbeatens
Gwynn Park (11-0) senior
quarterback Jay Adams threw for
250 yards and two touchdowns,
leading his team to a 42-32 victory over Frederick Douglass (83) in the Class 2A South Region
semiﬁnals.
“Nobody said we could beat
them twice in one season, we
proved them wrong,” said senior
Omar Branch, who caught a 69yard touchdown in the win.
Gwynn Park is scheduled to
play at Patuxent (11-0) 7 p.m.
Friday.
“They got a very good team,”
Gwynn Park coach Danny Hayes
said. “They’re not undefeated
for nothing.”
egoldwein@gazette.net
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 bo
Page A-11
Cross Country
Boys’ Runner of the Year
Girls’ Runner of the Year
Joshua
Wilkins
Imani
Matthews
Bowie
Senior
Flowers
Senior
Wilkins ﬁnished
ﬁrst in the the
county (16:02),
ﬁrst in the 4A
South Region
(16:03) and seventh in the state
(16:16)
Topped the
county (20:51)
at Fort Washington National
Park and won
the region with
an impressive
time of 20:57
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Bowie’s Joshua Wilkins (left) is The Gazette’s Runner of the Year in cross country.
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Flowers’ Imani Matthews (Runner of the Year) and Alexis Baynes are on the All-Gazette team.
Boys’ ﬁrst team
Adel
Akalu
Oxon Hill
Sophomore
He ﬁnished
second in the
4A South region
(17:15)
Girls’ ﬁrst team
Donnell
Davis
Joseph
Graham
Terrell
Green
Caleb
McCammon
Alyson
Allen
Flowers
Senior
Bowie
Senior
DeMatha
Junior
Douglass
Senior
Laurel
Sophomore
Roosevelt
Freshman
He placed
fourth in county
(17:22) and
ninth in region
Finished third in
both the county
(17:16) and 4A
South meets
Graham was
consistent, including ﬁfth at
Landon (17:32)
He took second
at county meet
(16:49) and 23rd
in the state
He ﬁnished
sixth (17:49) in
county and ﬁfth
in the region
Finished sixth in
county (21:51)
and eighth at
regionals
Justin
Bentham
Boys’ Coaches of the Year
Rich Andrulonis
Bowie, 31st season
Lovingly known as “Coach A,”
the running lifer led his Bulldogs to a three-peat of both the
county and 4A South Region
championships
SETTLED
Continued from Page A-10
Forestville’s football program eased
the transition.
Teammates and coaches welcomed Settles, even giving him the
“E-Ron” nickname — his name is
pronounced “EH-rin.”
“I don’t remember the last time I
heard somebody call him Earon,” senior teammate Marcel Joly said.
Quarterback was a new position
for Settles, who had experience playing linebacker, wide receiver and offensive line at various youth levels.
He volunteered to start under
center before the season — “I told
Coach Harley, ‘I can throw’” — and
WISE
Continued from Page A-10
range game.”
Added Golladay: “I’ve gotten smarter. College ball teaches
you how to take less shots and
score more, learn how to play
and anticipate what your teammates and opponents are going
to do.”
After graduating from
Wise, Golladay played two
years at Mount St. Mary’s, but
transferred to Prince George’s
Community College following a coaching change. He also
wanted to be closer to home to
his 2-year-old daughter, Madison, who comes to some of
Bowie State’s practices to watch
her father and most of the Bulldogs’ home games. Last year at
Bowie State, he played sparingly
off the bench.
“Those were a couple of the
reasons and I knew when I transferred, I knew I was going to go
to a [junior college]. PGCC called
and it’s 10 minutes from my
house so it was an easy decision.”
Added Brooks: “I don’t remember him at Wise, but I sure
remember him at Mount St.
Mary’s. We knew he was looking
to [transfer] and knew he was
good, so we said, ‘Go get him.’”
The Bulldogs are 1-3 this
winter, but Brooks and Golladay
believe a difﬁcult non-conference schedule, including an exhibition loss at Duke, one of the
top-ﬁve programs in Division I,
and early season struggles will
pay dividends later in the year.
Bowie State has also instituted
a full-court press style of play,
a departure from previous seasons when the team played at a
slower pace.
“We’ll take hits early and
Anne
Dickerson
Devonni
Farrar
Ashley
Modeste
Mercedes
Stokes
Flowers
Junior
Roosevelt
Junior
Largo
Senior
Bowie
Sophomore
Central
Senior
Took second
in the county
(21:00) and the
region (20:58)
Recorded her
top time in big
meet at regionals (21:52)
Largo’s leader
had a ﬁfth-place
ﬁnish in the
county (21:46)
Finished fourth
in county
(21:42) and third
in the 4A South
Stokes ﬁnished
third in the
county (21:22),
ﬁrst in region
Alexis
Baynes
Boys’ second team
Girls’ second team
Michael Aregaye, Parkdale, senior; Cameron Burgess,
Charles H. Flowers, sophomore; Ryan LeTerouea, Eleanor Roosevelt, senior; Chris Jeletic, DeMatha, junior;
Hangaamo Lintiso, High Point, sophomore; Jalend
Hill, DuVal, junior; Martrell Royal, Bowie, senior; Amen
Tefarie, Forestville Military Academy, senior; Dwaine
Thomas, Bowie, senior; Allen Webster, Henry A. Wise,
sophomore
Jolaade Adepoju, Parkdale, senior; Samantha
Bowie, Bishop McNamara, junior; Mary Anna
Brogi, Eleanor Roosevelt, sophomore; Siyana
Dottin, Elizabeth Seton, sophomore; Ashley
Gbedo, Parkdale, junior; Felicia Haidara, Bowie,
freshman; Erika Nelson, Elizabeth Seton, senior;
Chyna Sequeira, Bowie, junior; Zari Weaver,
Bowie, junior; Sashane Williams, Bladensburg,
senior
the senior was inserted into the starting lineup.
While last year’s team shufﬂed
quarterbacks, Settles was the permanent starter this season. He was an
exceptionally quick learner, teammates and coaches said. He not only
started under center, but he was also
the play-caller.
“He’s not really a quarterback,
but he’s a tough kid who leads well,”
Harley said.
Forestville assistant Evan Murray
said Settles is like an assistant coach
when he is playing safety. He said
Settles’ football IQ is “off the charts.”
“He makes our job really easy,”
Murray said.
The Knights run a college-style
we’ll be ﬁne,” Brooks said. “The
guys loved playing at Duke and
it was a great experience for us
since they didn’t treat us like D-II
Bowie State, they treated us like
rival North Carolina. That game
showed us that we can be good.”
defense with 100-plus packages,
Murray said. Joly, who verbally committed to play football at the University of Iowa, said he was impressed by
Settles’ ability to learn the playbook in
his ﬁrst year with Forestville.
“He just takes a glance at it and
he knows what everybody has to do,”
Joly said. “… For him to just come and
know the signals, it was pretty cool.”
Settles’ senior season ended with
a 20-16 loss to Sparrows Point in the
1A North Region semiﬁnal on Saturday. He threw a touchdown and ran
for 29 yards in the defeat. The senior
said he wants to continue playing
football in college.
egoldwein@gazette.net
A season after being the
Bulldogs’ primary facilitator, senior and Oxon Hill graduate Ray
Gatling (20.5 ppg) has assumed
a prominent scoring role along
with classmate forward Carlos
Smith (12.5 ppg).
Girls’ Coach of the Year
FLOWERS
Continued from Page A-10
Brown starting at quarterback.
“[White] looked like he just wanted to
put his pads on and get out there,” said senior teammate Dorian Cash.
Cash, who played on the offensive and
defensive line, said White was a strong
leader and an effective quarterback.
“He’s a team captain and he talks to us
when we need talking to,” Cash said.
The Jaguars took a step forward with
White under center, improving on last
year’s six-win season, Mayo said.
White said he worked hard in the offseason in preparation for his ﬁrst season
as full-time starter, watching game ﬁlm
and running track. The extra effort paid off.
“I asked Ray to be the point
guard last year and he was as big
for us as [2013 graduate Byron
Westmorland]was,butwithWestmorland gone, we need Ray to
score now and he clearly — he did
it in high school — can do that,”
Andrew Zanghi
Eleanor Roosevelt
After falling short of beating Bowie for a
majority of the season, the Raiders ﬁnished strong by besting the Bulldogs in
the 4A South region and state meets
White ﬁnished the season with 540 yards in
the air and eight passing touchdowns.
“From year to year, he’s just gotten better,” Mayo said.
White was productive as a runner, gaining 254 yards on the ground and rushing
for nine touchdowns. As a running threat,
White added another dimension to the offense, Mayo said.
“He has no fear. He sticks his head in
there,” he said.
White said he would have preferred
ending on different terms, but enjoyed
his time playing high school in spite of the
tough ﬁnish. He said he plans on playing
football at the next level.
“It was special for me to be 7-0 as a
starter,” White said. “… I will remember
the players on the team, the coaches and
the game.”
Brooks said. “There are a lot of
guys in different roles and we are
adjusting. Carlos went from a role,
ﬁll-in guy to the guy. Ray went
from point to a scoring guard.”
A season removed from the
NCAA tournament, expectations
are high for Bowie State.
“We’ve started slow, just like
last year, but we’ll turn it around
again,” Golladay said. “I see no
reason why it won’t happen.”
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Arts & Entertainment
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Documentary explores link between Washington church and children of Hiroshima blast
BRYAN REICHHARDT
Howard Bell, an American adviser, meets with school children as Hiroshima struggled to rebuild after the atomic bombing in 1945. The photo appears in a screening of “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard” on
Sunday at The Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel. The locally made documentary tells the story of children who drew pictures in thanks for school supplies sent to them by a Washington, D.C., church. Sixty years
later, church members went to Hiroshima to meet the people who had created the drawings.
BY
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VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
ot long after Americans dropped the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan,
a church in Washington, D.C., sent
school supplies to surviving children in
the devastated Japanese city, which was
struggling to rebuild.
Using the crayons, pencils and
paints from All Souls Church Unitarian,
the children sent back two portfolios of
colorful drawings made with the supplies as thanks.
But it wasn’t until Shizumi Manale of Silver Spring saw the
drawings in 2006 as the church was thinking about returning
them to Hiroshima that the idea of a documentary took root.
“She was so moved by these pictures,” said ﬁlmmaker
Bryan Reichhardt, also of Silver Spring, who had worked with
Manale on a previous project.
The remarkable reconnection after 60 years between the
church and Japan is chronicled in the documentary “Pictures
from a Hiroshima Schoolyard,” screening on Sunday at the
Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel.
Reichhardt, who wrote and directed the 82-minute ﬁlm,
will be present at the event to answer questions from the audience.
The exhibit of drawings from the documentary will be on
view at Montpelier to Dec. 1.
See PICTURES, Page B-7
Introducing ‘Albert’
n
n
n Where: Montpelier Arts Center,
9652 Muirkirk Road., Laurel
n Tickets: $5
n For information:
301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.
com, hiroshimaschoolyard.com
Concert brings sounds
of Belgium to life
BY
CARA HEDGEPETH
WILL C. FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITER
STAFF WRITER
If you’re new to the operatic
world, Nick Olcott, interim director of
the Maryland Opera Studio, suggests
a comedy such as “Albert Herring,”
opening Friday at the Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center, to ease you in.
“I think it’s important when people are going to come to the opera for
the ﬁrst time, they should come to a
comedy because it is much more accessible and much more relatable
than big tragedies,” Olcott said. “And
this one, on top of everything else, is
in English so you don’t have to know
Italian.”
Composed by British composer,
conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten, “Albert Herring” is the story of
“hapless lad” Albert and his attempt to
shed his good-boy image. His timing
is unfortunate, however, as the presumptuous Lady Billows has decided
n When: Film at 1 p.m. Sunday,
exhibit runs to Dec. 1
From Brussels, with love
Maryland opera students aim
to break stereotypes
BY
PICTURES FROM A
HIROSHIMA SCHOOLYARD
The Maryland Opera Studio is a
graduate program within Maryland’s
School of Music. Every year, about
10 students are admitted to the studio, which functions as an academic
Belgium is known the world
over for beer, chocolate, wafﬂes
and even actor Jean-Claude Van
Damme. What many might not
know is Belgium has a rich history of artistry, most notably
when it comes to music.
World-famous musicians,
such as Jacques Brel and Josquin
des Prez, called Belgium home.
Without Adolphe Sax, who was
born in Wallonia, Belgium, the
world wouldn’t have the saxophone.
Those are just some of the
things Annick Kanter-St. Hubert
wants folks to know, which is
why she came up with the idea
for the “Beyond Beer, Chocolate
and Lace: Belgium’s Brightest
and Best,” concert, which is set
See ALBERT, Page B-9
See BRUSSELS, Page B-4
ASHLEY POLLARD
Three students from the Maryland Opera Studio rehearse for “Albert Herring,” opening at
the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Friday.
to break from tradition and crown a
King of the May instead of a queen.
“Albert Herring” is the ﬁrst of two
productions the Maryland Opera Studio will produce during the 2013-2014
academic year. The second, Strauss’
“Die Fledermaus,” will open in April.
ANNICK KANTER-ST. HUBERT
The Voix de Femmes women’s chamber choir
will perform at the “Beyond Beer, Chocolate and
Lace: Belgium’s Brightest and Best,” concert at
Church of the Resurrection in Burtonsville on
Sunday.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 bo
Complete calendar online at www.gazette.net
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY’S ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR
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THEATER & STAGE
Bowie Community Theatre,
“The Cover of Life,” to Nov. 24,
Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White
Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-8050219, www.bctheatre.com.
Bowie State University, TBA,
Fine and Performing Arts Center,
Bowie State University, 14000
Jericho Park Road, Bowie, 301-8603717, www.bowiestate.edu.
Busboys & Poets, Hyattsville,
TBA, 5331 Baltimore Avenue,
Hyattsville, 301-779-2787 (ARTS),
www.busboysandpoets.com.
Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center, Blind Summit: “The
Table,” 8 p.m. Nov. 20-22; Faculty Artist Recital: Linda Mabbs
remembers Britten, 8 p.m. Nov.
21; Maryland Opera Studio: Albert Herring, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22,
25-26, 3 p.m. Nov. 24; UMD Wind
Ensemble: Carmina Burana, 8
p.m. Nov. 22; Winter Big Band
Showcase, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2; Japanese Koto Ensemble and UMD
Gamelan Saraswati, 8 p.m. Dec.
4; New Music at Maryland, 8 p.m.
Dec. 4; Bach Cantata Series: NWV
106, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 5; The Inner
Landscape, 2 p.m. Dec. 5; Honors
Chamber Music Recital, 8 p.m.
Dec. 5, University of Maryland,
College Park, claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.
Harmony Hall Regional Center,
TBA, call for prices, 10701 Livings-
ton Road, Fort Washington, 301203-6070, arts.pgparks.com.
Greenbelt Arts Center, “See
How They Run,” to Nov. 30, call
for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts
Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt,
301-441-8770, www.greenbeltartscenter.org.
Hard Bargain Players, TBA,
2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek,
www.hbplayers.org.
Joe’s Movement Emporium,
Silk Road Dance Festival, 8 p.m.
Nov. 9, 3309 Bunker Hill Road,
Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819,
www.joesmovement.org.
Laurel Mill Playhouse, “The
Lieutenant of Inishmore,” to Nov.
24; “It’s a Wonderful Life: The
Radio Play,” Dec. 13 to Jan. 4,
call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill
Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel,
301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.
Montpelier Arts Center, “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard,” 1 p.m. Nov. 24; Divas Deck
the Halls, 5 p.m. Dec. 7, 9652
Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-3777800, arts.pgparks.com.
National Harbor, ICE! “’Twas
the Night Before Christmas,” to
Jan. 5, Gaylord National Resort
and Convention Center, 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor,
Maryland. www.christmasonthepotomac.com.
Prince George’s Little Theatre,
TBA, call for tickets and show
times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500
White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie,
301-957-7458, www.pglt.org.
Publick Playhouse, PRAISE
Dance Festival Auditions, 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Nov. 23; Snow Queen,
10:15 a.m. and noon, Dec. 3, 5445
Landover Road, Cheverly, 301277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.
2nd Star Productions, “Funny
Money,” coming in January, Bowie
Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh
Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices,
times, 410-757-5700, 301-8324819, www.2ndstarproductions.
com.
Tantallon Community Players,
“Miracle on 34th Street,” Dec.
6-15; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort
Washington, 301-262-5201, www.
tantallonstage.com.
A CLOSER LOOK
VISUAL ARTS
Brentwood Arts Exchange, “My
Haiku: Paintings of Cianne Fragione,” to Dec. 28; Front Window
Featured Artist: Ellyn Weiss, to
Nov. 28, 3901 Rhode Island Ave.,
Brentwood, 301-277-2863, arts.
pgparks.com.
Harmony Hall Regional Center,
“It Happened One Night,” Paper Collage by Ronnie Spiewak,
to Dec. 27, 2nd Annual Prince
George’s Parks and Recreation
Employee Visual and Performing
Arts Exhibition, to Dec. 27, gallery
hours from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Monday through Friday, 10701
Livingston Road, Fort Washington,
301-203-6070. arts.pgparks.com.
David C. Driskell Center,
“Still...” by sculptor Allison Saar, to
Dec. 13, University of Maryland,
College Park. www.driskellcenter.
NIGEL BEWLEY
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
The grumpy puppet narrator has his own story to tell in the Blind Summit Theatre’s “The
Table,” which closes Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park.
umd.edu.
Montpelier Arts Center, “Hiro-
shima Schoolyard,” to Dec. 1, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily,
9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-
377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.
University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices
and venue, 3501 University Blvd.,
Adelphi, 301-985-7937, www.
umuc.edu/art.
NIGHTLIFE
Hand Dancing with D.C. Hand
Dance Club, free lesson from 4 to
5 p.m., dancing from 5 to 9 p.m.
Sundays at the Coco Cabana,
2031-A University Blvd. E., Hyattsville, $10 cover, www.dchanddanceclub.com.
New Deal Café, Mid-day melodies with Amy C. Kraft, noon, Nov.
21; open mic with Joe Harris, 7
p.m. Nov. 21; John Guernsey, 6:30
p.m. Nov. 22-23; Frenchy and the
Punk, 8 p.m. Nov. 22; Bruce Kritt,
4 p.m. Nov. 23; Jelly Roll Mortals,
8 p.m. Nov. 23; Ayreheart, 5 p.m.
Nov. 24; Tower Green, 7 p.m. Nov.
26; Cajun Music Jam, 7 p.m. Nov.
27, 113 Centerway Road, 301-4745642, www.newdealcafe.com.
Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every
Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30
p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie,
301-464-8800, www.oldbowietowngrille.com.
OUTDOORS
Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park
programs, noon-4 p.m. ﬁrst and
third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block
Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301627-7755.
Mount Rainier Nature Center,
Toddler Time: hands-on treasures,
crafts, stories and soft play, 10:30
a.m.-noon Thursdays, age 5 and
younger free, 4701 31st Place,
Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163.
Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. ﬁrst Sat-
urdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area,
meets at end of Lemon Bridge
Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A
Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third
Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road,
Bowie, meet in parking lot; for
migrating and resident woodland
and ﬁeld birds, and waterfowl. For
beginners and experts. Waterproof
footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.
REC CENTERS
Prince George’s Sports &
Learning Complex, Senior Days at
the Sportsplex, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
seniors allowed free use of the ﬁtness center and pool, age 60 and
up, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover,
301-583-2400.
Seat Pleasant Activity Center, Line Dancing, 6:30-8 p.m.
Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturdays, $40 series, $6 drop-ins,
age 18 and up, 5720 Addison Road,
Seat Pleasant, 301-773-6685.
ET CETERA
College Park Aviation Museum,
Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
second and fourth Thursdays of
every month, activities for preschoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages
2-18; Afternoon Aviators, 2-4:30
p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviationthemed activities for age 5 and up,
$4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, events
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Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the con-
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choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45-9:30
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Dogﬁsh Head brewery continues to make a splash
BREWS BROTHERS
STEVEN FRANK AND
ARNOLD MELTZER
Sam Calagione, the brewery’s co-founder and co-owner,
opened the Dogﬁsh Head brewpub in 1995 in Rehoboth Beach,
Del., near his wife’s hometown.
It was named after Calagione’s
fondly-remembered vacation
spot near Boothbay Harbor in
Maine to lend a New England
character.
Starting with a minuscule
12-gallon brewing facility that
needed constant use to keep up
with customer demand, Calagione was continuously brewing
and getting bored with the repetition. He experimented by grabbing “everything but the kitchen
sink,” in a brewing career that
has led to his being called the
“Mad Alchemist of Brewing.”
Demand rapidly increased and
a packaging brewery was added
in 1997.
The kitchen to brewpot escapades gave Dogfish a well
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unusual ingredients and brewing unusual beers. Some of the
non-standard additions to the
Dogﬁsh beers include St. John’s
Wort, Saffron, Agave nectar,
hawthorn berry from China,
and spirulina, a blue green algae
to give green color for a St. Patrick’s Day beer.
Dogfish also has become
renowned for its series of India
Pale Ales, some very high alcohol brews, and re-creations
of ancient ales. The three IPAs,
called 60 Minute, 90 Minute,
and 120 Minute, add hops continuously for the respective time
durations. Calagione got the
idea from watching a chef prepare food and adding spices on
a continuous basis to enhance
the ﬂavor.
The high alcohol beers,
deﬁnite brewing achievements,
include World Wide Stout (1520 percent alcohol by volume,
ABV), once the highest alcohol
beer being regularly brewed;
Fort (15-18 percent ABV), a fruit
beer with raspberries and the
highest alcohol fruit beer being
produced; 120 Minute IPA (15-20
percent ABV); and Olde School
Barleywine (13-16 percent ABV.)
The Ancient Ales series
started as a collaboration with
Patrick McGovern, a professor at
the University of Pennsylvania’s
Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, to recreate the libation consumed at King Midas’
funeral, calling it Midas Touch.
Successive collaborations with
the McGovern have resulted in
producing Chateau Jiahu based
on a 9000 year old dig in China;
Theobroma based on an 3,200
year old Aztec chocolate beer;
Ta Henket using ingredients
and traditions from Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Bierra Etrusca
Bronze from excavations in a
2,800 year old Etruscan tomb.
Midas Touch (9 percent ABV)
has a sweet, light honey nose
with a hint of white grapes
which presages the taste in the
front. These all continue in the
middle with a slight increase in
the grape to medium. The ﬁnish
adds muted alcohol notes which
grow in the aftertaste giving a
touch of alcoholic warmth. Ratings: 8/7.5.
Palo Santo Marron (12 per-
Dogﬁsh Head Brewery’s 90 minute Imperial IPA.
cent ABV) is brewed in a barrel made from the wood of the
Paraguayan Palo Santo tree, one
of three woods so dense they
do not ﬂoat. Palo has a aroma
of roast, grape, licorice and alcohol. The medium roast and
muted licorice front continues
in the middle as the licorice in-
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creases and is joined by a dollop
of chocolate. The roast increases
in the ﬁnish with an emerging vinous character. In the aftertaste
the roast continues, the licorice
fades, and a restrained bitter
hop appears. Ratings: 9.5/9.
90 Minute IPA (9 percent
ABV) opens with a melon, cit-
rus, pine, and bitter hop bouquet. The mild sweet front
segues into a middle of melon,
citrus and bitter hops. Both the
melon and the bitter hops increase to medium in the ﬁnish.
The hops come to the forefront
in the aftertaste but are very well
balanced by a strong malt backbone. A relatively high alcohol is
present but well integrated. Ratings: 9/9.5.
World Wide Stout (18-20 percent ABV), a two year old version, begins with a deep roast, a
whiff of alcohol and a slightly vinous aroma. The deep roast and
slight alcohol are evidenced in
the front. The alcohol increases
to medium in the middle as a
splash of Port wine appears. The
wine grows modestly in the ﬁnish and again in the aftertaste,
as the alcohol continues. Even
with this two year old version,
the alcohol is overpowering
and the beer needs another two
years to become well blended
and more balanced. Ratings:
8/8.5. World Wide ages very
well. An 8-year old, more mellow and well-integrated version
scored 9.5/10.
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for Sunday at the Church of the
Resurrection in Burtonsville.
“Last year, we had a concert series — we had concerts
about once a month — called
‘Americans in Paris,’ and we did
a variety of French [songs],” said
Kanter-St. Hubert, who is the
musical director at the Church
of the Resurrection. “It went well
… and I thought I wanted to do
the same thing, but for my home
country, for Belgium.”
The concert will feature local musicians playing songs
relating to Belgium. Amy Horn
is set to play the French horn,
which was used in the Ardennes
during hunting season. Declan
Keenan, a young musician from
Ireland, will play the guitar and
Kanter-St. Hubert will not only
conduct the music during the
show, she will sing several selections by Brel. The concert
will also feature other musicians
and choirs.
“Jacques Brel, to me, his biggest strength is the quality of his
poetry,” Kanter-St. Hubert said.
“… It’s also not always easy to
ﬁnd pieces that can be done by
a woman. A lot of them … it’s a
man speaking. There are a few
that I’ve always liked.”
Following the concert,
which starts at 7 p.m., performers will be available to answer
questions from the audience.
There will be a light reception
following the show. Kanter-St.
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Tourists ﬂock to the Grand Place in the heart of Brussels, Belgium.
Hubert hopes to be able to provide a little taste of home as well.
“I met today, by chance, a
woman who … has a little truck
and she sells [Belgian] wafﬂes,
but they’re the real thing,”
Kanter-St. Hubert said. “There
are several kinds of [Belgian]
wafﬂes. [These are] called the
wafﬂes from Liege because it
has a special chunky sugar.
She just started this business
— her family is from Belgium
and I always thought it would
be something … In Belgium,
when you’re walking around the
streets, you get people who sell
those wafﬂes just like hot dogs
here. They sell those special
wafﬂes on the spot and they’re
nice and warm.”
Kanter-St. Hubert said the
goal of the concert is just to
broaden people’s concepts of
Belgium — from food and drink
to the ﬁne arts.
“I would like people to discover my country,” Kanter-St.
Hubert said. “You know, some
of its history and, as the title
says, kind of go beyond just
chocolates and beer and what
they know. There’s a lot of history and a lot of art. I’m hoping
to give them a glimpse of what
Belgium is about.”
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Holiday Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Hillandale Baptist Church, 2601
Powder Mill Road, Adelphi. Holiday
craft and food bazaar. Hand-crafted
items, decorations, baked goods
and clothing with lunch food items
available for purchase. No admission fee. Table rental for vendors
is $20. Contact 301-434-6033 or
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Annual Holly Days Bazaar, 9
a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 522 Main St., Laurel.
Forty-seventh annual event.
Handmade gifts and ornaments,
toys, baked goods and rafﬂes will
be available. St. Nick will visit from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call the church
ofﬁce at 301-776-5151 or visit
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H.E.A.L. Workshop: Take
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with counselors, grief experts
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Thanksgiving Eve Celebration, 7 to 8 p.m., Riverdale Pres-
byterian Church, 6513 Queens
Chapel Road, Hyattsville. Join area
churches for an evening of music
and reﬂection the night before
Thanksgiving at Riverdale Presbyterian Church. Please bring nonperishable food donations, which
will be donated to a community
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Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve
Service, 7:30 to 9 p.m., Temple
Solel, 2901 Mitchellville Road,
Bowie. The Interfaith Council
of Suburban Maryland will host
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service. The guest speaker will be
Kevin Maxwell, CEO of the Prince
George’s County Public Schools.
Current participants are from the
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A free will collection of money
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Contact 240-475-2111 or minister@goodloeuu.org.
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Mount Rainier Christian Church
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church, 4001 33rd St., Mount
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Body and Soul Fitness presents
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Born after the war, Manale
grew up near Hiroshima and
later emigrated to the United
States, becoming a choreographer and performer of Japanese
dance.
She ﬁrst learned about the
drawings and the church as a
volunteer with the DC Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee. Japanese visitors had heard
about the All Souls connection
and sometimes asked to visit.
Long interested in the interplay of cultures, Reichhardt
agreed when Manale as producer approached him about
doing a documentary.
“I’m also fascinated with living history — history that’s alive
and well,” he said.
The two then began researching what had happened
after the bombing in 1945.
Reichhardt then started the job
of editing the footage, but with
little money to fund the work.
By sheer chance, he and his
future wife, musician and singer
Suzanne Brindamour, were having dinner at a restaurant in Virginia in the same dining room
as members of the board of the
United States-Japan Foundation, which promotes intercultural understanding.
“They asked me to pitch the
ﬁlm at their dinner — that kind
of thing never happens,” said
Reichhardt about the grant he
later received from the group.
A rough cut of the ﬁlm has
already screened in Japan and
at the University of California, Berkeley. Reichhardt also
screened the ﬁlm at the National
Press Club in the District on
Nov. 13 and at All Souls Church
Unitarian on Nov. 17.
He said he hopes to show the
ﬁlm at a theater in Washington,
D.C., in December and screen it
next year in New York and Los
Angeles as part of a push for an
Oscar nomination in 2014.
Although the bombing of
Hiroshima happened more
than 60 years ago, attempts at
reconciliation continue today,
and those efforts can also apply
to other bitter conﬂicts, Reichhardt said.
“I’m very proud of it — I
think it’s a great story,” he said.
“If people can connect after
this horrendous event, anyone
can connect,” said Reichhardt.
“Peace is possible.”
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BRYAN REICHHARDT
Yoshie Fujii of Tokyo looks at a colorful drawing she made of the river in Hiroshima when she was 9 years old, not
long after the city was demolished by the atomic bomb.
Pastor at All Souls
Arthur Powell Davies, minister at All Souls, was outraged by
a photo he saw in The Washington Post of Americans cutting a
cake made with angel food puff
balls representing the atomic
mushrooom cloud.
Deeply offended, he wrote
a sermon, “Lest the Living Forget,” which caught the eye of
Howard Bell, an American adviser working with Gen. Douglas
MacArthur’s provisional government in Hiroshima.
Bell wrote Davies and suggested that if he really wanted to
help, he could send school supplies to the city. Church volunteers collected supplies and sent
them to Honkawa Elementary
School, and two other institutions.
The concrete Honkawa
School was within half a mile
of the center of the blast. More
than 400 children and a dozen
teachers died there when the
bomb blew up Hiroshima at 8:15
a.m. on Aug. 6.
Fires raged across what was
left of the city, and the river grew
thick with bodies of people trying to ﬁnd relief, according to
the ﬁlm. The school was one of
the few buildings left standing.
Not long after the blast,
about 800 students who had
been staying with relatives outside the city returned with their
families who moved back to
protect their properties and start
over.
Ofﬁcials had predicted nothing would grow for 75 years because of the radiation, but then
a typhoon hit and water washed
over the city.
“They thought it was a dead
place, but then plants started to
grow,” said Reichhardt. “They
were going to stay and rebuild.”
The children resumed their
lessons in what was left of the
school despite the terrible conditions. Gangsters, who had moved
in to ﬁll the power vacuum, controlled the area, people continued to die from radiation sickness
and there was little to eat.
“The children were living in
squalor and going to school in
a concrete shell open to the elements,” Reichhardt said.
When the school supplies
arrived from All Souls in early
1948, the students were thrilled
by the brightly colored glass
marbles and the packets of
colorful crayons, pencils and
paints.
“They were so ecstatic when
they got their gifts,” he said.
The children used the materials to make pictures of cherry
blossoms, green trees, sunny
skies and happy people, a sign
of their optimism and hope for
the future.
Finding the artists
Decades later, it became
Manale’s job to undertake the
job of ﬁnding the adults who
had drawn the pictures, which
she did with the help of the
Honkawa school that was still
operating.
In 2010, a delegation from
All Souls headed by present Pastor Robert Hardies brought 17
drawings to the school for display during the school’s Peace
Week.
Before they had “just been
pictures, and now they were
people,” Hardies says in the ﬁlm.
After documenting the trip,
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AT THE MOVIES
Reunion of ‘The Best Man’ cast is pleasant company
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“The Best Man Holiday” follows in
the footsteps of writer-director Malcolm D. Lee’s successful 1999 comedy
“The Best Man,” using a template familiar to anyone who may have seen
“The Big Chill” or its micro-budget
predecessor, “Return of the Secaucus
Seven.” They’re all different in their
qualities and atmosphere. “The Best
Man Holiday,” for example, is a far
more Tyler Perry-ish mixture of comedy and tragedy than the easygoing
“Best Man” was, back in the pre-Perry
movie era.
Yet along with everything from
“Jumping the Broom” to “Think Like
a Man” to Adam Sandler’s slovenly
“Grown Ups” hits, these disparate ensemble pictures live or die on the same
simple question: Do we enjoy hanging
out with these people for a couple of
hours?
The hangout factor remains gratifyingly high in “The Best Man Holiday,”
though the mood has grown bittersweet. In the ﬁrst “Best Man,” Taye
Diggs’ character, the novelist Harper,
wrote a thinly disguised book about
himself and his college friends in which
he revealed his long-ago affair with
Mia (Monica Calhoun), who’s about
to marry football star Lance (Morris
Chestnut). Lance nearly threw Harper
off a balcony when he ﬁnally learned
of the tryst, but with God’s guidance
Lance’s forgiving instincts brought everyone peaceably together for a climactic wedding and closing dance number.
Fourteen years later, times are
tough for Harper. Now married to
Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), with a child due,
the once-hot novelist has followed up
his best-seller with a sophomore slump
of a book. Also he’s been laid off by
New York University, news he has yet
to share with his wife. Harper still holds
a small- to medium-sized torch for TV
producer Jordan (Nia Long).
Reneging on the all’s-well ending
in the ﬁrst “Best Man,” superstar Lance
has slipped into a jealous funk once
again regarding Harper’s dalliance with
Mia. Nonetheless, Mia invites everyone
to stay with them for Christmas. The
THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY
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gang’s all here, including Julian (Harold Perrineau), now happily married
to his ex-stripper, now-educator wife
(Regina Hall). The shrill handful Shelby
(Melissa De Sousa) was last seen hooking up with the unrepentant horn dog
Quentin, played by Terrence Howard.
Both return, and in particular it’s a treat
to see Howard mess around so entertainingly, after so many dramas, in a
brashly comic role.
Some of the writing is pungently
funny, as when Jordan’s new squeeze
(Eddie Cibrian) is described by one of
the characters as “a tall vanilla swagga
latte.”
The ﬁrst ﬁlm’s clash of true Christian believers and nonbelievers was
part of the fabric of the comedy, though
it wasn’t all played for laughs. This time
there’s a blunt tone to the inspirational
uplift.
It’s a bit of a drag that the ﬁlm is
conﬁned for long stretches to the interior of Lance and Mia’s oddly underfurnished McMansion. But Lee,
who made the underrated Chicago-set
“Roll Bounce,” knows where this movie’s bread and butter is stored. When
the four male leads suave their way
through a dance number set to New
Edition’s “Can You Stand the Rain,” it’s
a highlight because the hangout factor
with this cast is considerable. And the
movie, while nothing visually special,
earns its queen-sized dose of pathos
honestly.
As to why studios don’t put out
twice, three times, ﬁve times as many
predominantly African-American ensemble pieces every year, given their
typical cost-to-profit ratios ... good
question.
Robin (Sanaa Lathan) and Harper (Taye Diggs) star in “The Best Man Holiday.”
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ASHLEY POLLARD
Katherine Ann Brandt as Florence in the Maryland Opera Studio production of
“Albert Herring.”
Continued from Page B-1
program and a performance
ensemble. Upon their completion of the two-year program,
students receive a master’s of
music in opera performance.
Students typically perform a
minimally-produced or “white
opera” in the fall, followed by
a fully produced show in the
spring.
“The opera is minimally produced in that there is no set,” Olcott said. “We use our stock set
costumes which are all made of
white muslin, which is why we
call it the ‘white opera’ ... Usually it’s done only with a piano,
but this year, because the original piece is written for a chamber orchestra, we are actually
doing it with the full orchestra it
is written for.”
Houston-based conductor Craig Kier is conducting
the piece. A graduate of SUNY
Fredonia in New York City, Kier
currently spends most of his
time working with the Houston
Grand Opera and the Houston
Ballet. Recently, he’s been frequently making the trip to and
from College Park to work with
the Maryland Opera Studio students.
“I’ve actually been there
several times,” Kier said. “We
spent the ﬁrst week coaching it
musically and putting all of the
ensembles together ... I’ve been
back three or four times to oversee things.”
Thanks to the small size of
the studio program, Olcott said
the operas are chosen speciﬁcally to ﬁt the strengths of the
students.
“Our primary goal is to serve
our students,” Olcott said. “As
the students are admitted and
we hear their voices and get to
know them, we make a selection
of what opera would suit them
the best.”
In addition to being a good
ﬁt for this year’s class of studio
students, Olcott said “Albert
Herring” was chosen in part to
celebrate Britten’s centennial.
Despite their varying vocal
strengths, one thing all Maryland Opera Studio students
have in common is their afﬁnity
for drama.
“We place a lot of emphasis
on acting ... making sure they
know how to act and analyze
their scenes dramatically,” said
Olcott, whose professional experience includes acting, directing and writing for the theater.
“There was a stereotype of opera
for a lot of years that the singers couldn’t really act they just
stood in the center of the stage
and sang and there was no real
connection with the characters
... In the modern age, that stereotype is just disappearing —
particularly with the advent of
HDTV broadcasts of opera. The
singers really have to know how
to act.”
For Kier, working with the
students who have such an intense dramatic focus has been
both refreshing and rewarding.
“Often students at this level
don’t have the stage-savvy skills
or acting chops to pull from,”
Kier said. “It’s been really great
to work with these students ...
there’s a great focus on dramatic content because of what
Leon has set the foundation for.
ALBERT HERRING
n When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22,
Nov. 25-26; 3 p.m. Nov. 24
n Where: Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center,
College Park
n Tickets: $10-$25
n For information:
301-405-2787,
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu
All of the singers come from the
point of view of ﬁnding the most
dramatic way to present where
they’re coming from.”
The drama-focused approach may be yet another draw
for newcomers to the opera.
“The audience gets a lot out
of it because there is compelling
storytelling,” Kier said. “There
are no distortions to the audience.”
But perhaps above all else, it
is the characters in “Albert Herring” that Olcott said will draw
an audience in.
“It’s all of these wonderful
English Village-types we’re all
so fond of because of our Miss
Marple Murder Mysteries,” Olcott said. “All of the stock characters we know from Agatha
Christie are there.”
But for Maryland Opera Studio student Katie Baughman,
who plays Ms. Wordsworth, a
schoolteacher, another cast of
British characters come to mind.
“‘Downton Abbey,’” she
said. “[It] has come up more
than once since we’ve been talking about our characters.”
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